Recent research has documented that learning and evolution are capable of generating many well-known features in financial times series. We extend the results of LeBaron and Yamamoto (2007) to explore the impact of varying amounts of imitation and agent learning in a simple order-driven market....

In this paper, we study the learning behavior possibly emerging in six series of prediction market experiments. We first find, from the experimental outcomes, that there is a general positive correlation between subjects’ earning performance and their reliance on using limit orders to trade....