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Market structure or traders’ behavior? An assessment of flash crash phenomena and their regulation based on a multi-agent simulation

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  • Nathalie Oriol

    (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur)

  • Iryna Veryzhenko

    (LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - HESAM - HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université)

Abstract

This paper aims at studying the flash crash caused by an operational shock with different market participants. We reproduce this shock in artificial market framework to study market quality in different scenarios, with or without strategic traders. We show that traders' srategies influence the magnitude of the collapse. But, with the help of zero-intelligence traders framework, we show that despite theabsence of market makers, the order-driven market is resilient and favors a price recovery. We find that a short-sales ban imposed by regulator reduces short-term volatility.

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  • Nathalie Oriol & Iryna Veryzhenko, 2015. "Market structure or traders’ behavior? An assessment of flash crash phenomena and their regulation based on a multi-agent simulation," Working Papers halshs-01254435, HAL.
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    Keywords

    flash crash; limit order book; technical trading; Agent-based modeling; zero-intelligence trader;
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    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques

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