Evolution and time horizons in an agent-based stock market

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 225-254

  LeBaron, Blake ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Evolution; Financial time series; Learning; Memory; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035594461     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100501019058     Document Type: Article

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