Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106209 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
FinMaP-Working Paper No. 25
Publisher: 
Kiel University, FinMaP - Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance, Kiel
Abstract: 
In this paper we introduce a calibration procedure suitable for the validation of agent based models. Starting from the well-known financial model of Brock and Hommes 1998, we show how an appro- priate calibration technique makes the model able to describe price time series.The calibration results show that the simplest version of the Brock and Hommes model, with two trader types, fundamentalists and trend-followers, well replicates the price series of four sub-sectoral banking indexes, representing different geographical areas. Moreover, we show how the parameter values of the calibrated model are important to analyse the trader behavior on the different investigated markets.
Subjects: 
Validation
Agent-based models
Asset pricing
Heterogeneous beliefs
JEL: 
C52
C63
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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