1. Learning and Cognition in Financial Markets: A Paradigm Shift for Agent-Based Models
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Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, J. Lussange, Boris Gutkin, Alexis Belianin, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), National Research University Higher School of Economics [Moscow] (HSE), Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), and Vysšaja škola èkonomiki = National Research University Higher School of Economics [Moscow] (HSE)
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0303 health sciences ,Computational economics ,Hard and soft science ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Multi-agent system ,Field (Bourdieu) ,05 social sciences ,Big data ,Financial market ,03 medical and health sciences ,[SCCO]Cognitive science ,Paradigm shift ,0502 economics and business ,Reinforcement learning ,050207 economics ,Positive economics ,business ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,030304 developmental biology - Abstract
The history of research in finance and economics has been widely impacted by the field of Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE). While at the same time being popular among natural science researchers for its proximity to the successful methods of physics and chemistry for example, the field of ACE has also received critics by a part of the social science community for its lack of empiricism. Yet recent trends have shifted the weights of these general arguments and potentially given ACE a whole new range of realism. At the base of these trends are found two present-day major scientific breakthroughs: the steady shift of psychology towards a hard science due to the advances of neuropsychology, and the progress of reinforcement learning due to increasing computational power and big data. We outline here the main lines of a computational research study where each agent would trade by reinforcement learning.
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- 2021