Minority games with heterogeneous timescales

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 529-542

  Mosetti, Giancarlo ^a   Challet, Damien ^b   Zhang, Yi Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Exact results; Financial markets; Minority game; Timescales

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKETING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

FINANCIAL MARKETS; MINORITY GAME; TIMESCALES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33646117730     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.09.069     Document Type: Article

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