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From Discrete-Time Models to Continuous-Time, Asynchronous Models of Financial Markets

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Boer-Sorban, K.
Kaymak, U.
Spiering, J. (Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), RSM Erasmus University)

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Most agent-based simulation models of financial markets are discrete-time in nature. In this paper, we investigate to what degree such models are extensible to continuous-time, asynchronous modelling of financial markets. We study the behaviour of a learning market maker in a market with information asymmetry, and investigate the difference caused in the market dynamics between the discrete-time simulation and continuous-time, asynchronous simulation. We show that the characteristics of the market prices are different in the two cases, and observe that additional information is being revealed in the continuous-time, asynchronous models, which can be acted upon by the agents in such models. Since most financial markets are continuous and asynchronous in nature, our results indicate that explicit consideration of this fundamental characteristic of financial markets cannot be ignored in their agent-based modelling.

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Paper provided by Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. in its series Research Paper with number ERS-2006-009-LIS Revision_Date: 2009-07-29.

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Keywords: Agent-Based Computational Finance; Artificial Stock Markets; Market Microstructure; Glosten and Milgrom Model; Informational Asymmetry; Continuous Trading; Autonomous Behaviour;

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