Effects of fundamentals acquisition and strategy switch on stock price dynamics

Authored by Songtao Wu, Jianmin He, Shouwei Li

Date Published: 2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.09.072

Sponsors: Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province Chinese National Natural Science Foundation Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of Ministry of Education of the PR China

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Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

Model Code URLs: Model code not found

Abstract

An agent-based artificial stock market is developed to simulate trading behavior of investors. In the market, acquisition and employment of information about fundamentals and strategy switch are investigated to explain stock price dynamics. Investors could obtain the information from both market and neighbors resided on their social networks. Depending on information status and performances of different strategies, an informed investor may switch to the strategy of fundamentalist. This in turn affects the information acquisition process, since fundamentalists are more inclined to search and spread the information than chartists. Further investigation into price dynamics generated from three typical networks, i.e. regular lattice, small-world network and random graph, are conducted after general relation between network structures and price dynamics is revealed. In each network, integrated effects of different combinations of information efficiency and switch intensity are investigated. Results have shown that, along with increasing switch intensity, market and social information efficiency play different roles in the formation of price distortion, standard deviation and kurtosis of returns. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Social networks behavior Artificial stock market networks multi-agent based model Chaos Model Interacting agents Rules Impact Financial-markets Heterogeneous beliefs Stock price dynamics Information efficiency Strategy switch Asset price