Stress, budget constraints and expectation. Can
simulation help study more precisely models that can be deduced from
experimental economics?
By: Juliette
Rouchier and Stéphane
Robin
Date: 23rd October 2003
CPM Report No.: CPM-03-125
Presented at the first international conference of the European
Social Simulation Association, Gronigen, the Netherlands, September
2003.
Abstract
This paper describes a multi-agent
model of double-auction market in which simulations are led with
artificial agents. The study of market can be focused on the study of
information processing for the agents, and this means that one has to
make assumptions about the cognitive use that the agents do of these
information. For a few years, experiments have been used to study
auctions. The resulting data have more re-cently been used to make
hypothesis about learning and have occasionally been translated in
algorithms. We propose here simulations that are organised on the same
model as experiments, as a succession of auctions session where each
agent is given a good at the beginning of the session and has to
exchange it before the end. Agents are either seller or buyer and make
bids and asks along the time, that can be accepted by the others and
lead to transactions. Our main result is the fact that we
actually obtain convergence although agents have no knowledge of
others' limit prices and only interact through a completely impersonal
market, which correspond to experimental data.
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