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Title: A mixed-game agent-based model of financial contagion
Authors: Caporale, GM
Serguieva, A
Wu, H
Issue Date: 2008
Publisher: Brunel University
Citation: Economics and Finance Working papers, Brunel University, 08-08.
Abstract: Over the past two decades, financial market crises with similar features have occurred in different regions of the world. Unstable cross-market linkages during financial crises are referred to as financial contagion. We simulate the transmission of financial crises in the context of a model of market participants adopting various strategies; this allows testing for financial contagion under alternative scenarios. Using a minority game approach, we develop an agent-based multinational model and investigate the reasons for contagion. Although contagion has been extensively investigated in the financial literature, it has not been studied yet through computational intelligence techniques. Our simulations shed light on parameter values and characteristics which can be exploited to detect contagion at an earlier stage, hence recognising financial crises with the potential to destabilise cross-market linkages. In the real world, such information would be extremely valuable to develop appropriate risk management strategies.
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3485
Appears in Collections:Economics and Finance
Dept of Economics and Finance Research Papers

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