Software agents and market (In) efficiency: A human trader experiment

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-67

  Grossklags, Jens ^a   Schmidt, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial trading agent and human traders; Double auction; Electronic market; Experimental economics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; USER INTERFACES;

DOUBLE AUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS; MARKET BEHAVIOR; MARKET EFFICIENCY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33644894452     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2005.860575     Document Type: Article

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