Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62767 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 2001,36
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
We consider a financial market model with a large number of interacting agents. Investors are heterogeneous in their expectations about the future evolution of an asset price process. Their current expectation is based on the previous states of their neighbors and on a random signal about the \mood of the market. We analyze the asymptotics of both aggregate behaviour and asset prices. We give sufficient conditions for the distribution of equilibrium prices to converge to a unique equilibrium, and provide a microeconomic foundation for the use of diffusion models in the analysis of financial price fluctuations.
Subjects: 
behavioral finance
diffusion models
interacting Markov chains
stochastic difference equations
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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