Rational Interacting Agents and Volatility Clustering: A New Approach

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Rational Interacting Agents and Volatility Clustering: A New Approach

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Siddiqi, Hammad

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Hammad A. Siddiqi

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Here, we show that agents who are ex ante rational, if allowed to interact locally, may generate clustering of volatility. Hence, there is no need to reject the notion of rationality in agent based models.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 2984.

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