Ah. Sato et H. Takayasu, DYNAMIC NUMERICAL-MODELS OF STOCK-MARKET PRICE - FROM MICROSCOPIC DETERMINISM TO MACROSCOPIC RANDOMNESS, Physica. A, 250(1-4), 1998, pp. 231-252
A variant of threshold dynamics is introduced to model the behaviors o
f a large assembly of dealers in a stock market. Although the microsco
pic evolution dynamics is deterministic the collective behaviors such
as market prices show seemingly stochastic fluctuations. The statistic
al properties of market price change can be well approximated by a sim
ple discrete Langevin-type equation with random amplification. The mac
roscopic stochastic equation is solved both numerically and analytical
ly showing that the market price change generally follow power-law dis
tributions in the steady state. The reason for the appearance of rapid
decay in the distribution tails are discussed. (C) 1998 Published by
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