Chapter 24 Agent-based Computational Finance

Handbook of Computational Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1187-1233

  LeBaron, Blake ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial financial markets; asset pricing; behavioral finance; efficient markets; evolutionary computation; evolutionary finance; financial time series; genetic algorithms; learning; market microstructure; neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049155348     PISSN: 15740021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0021(05)02024-1     Document Type: Review

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