The use of fundamentalist traders in the stock market models is problematic since fundamental values in the real world are unknown. Yet, in the literature to date, fundamentalists are often required to replicate key stylized facts. The authors present an agent-based model of the stock market in...

Part 1. Importance and Model -- Chapter 1. Financial Market Design and Agent-Based Model -- Chapter 2. Base Model for Financial Market Design -- Part 2. Cases -- Chapter 3. Regulations/Rules -- Chapter 4. AI Traders/High Frequency Trades -- Chapter 5. New Financial Exchanges for High-Speed Era...

In this paper, a level set analysis is proposed which aims to analyze the S&P 500 return with a certain magnitude. It is found that the process of large jumps/drops of return tend to have negative serial correlation, and volatility clustering phenomenon can be easily seen. Then, a nonparametric...