How do heterogeneous trading strategies, leverage constraints, and order-book mechanics generate the statistical regularities of financial markets -- volatility clustering, fat-tailed returns, flash crashes, and liquidity spirals -- from the bottom up?
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Brock & Hommes (1998) -- heterogeneous agent model with adaptive belief switching between fundamentalist and chartist strategies
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Lux & Marchesi (1999) -- scaling and criticality in financial ABM producing power-law tails and volatility clustering
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LeBaron (2006) -- comprehensive survey of agent-based computational finance with 100+ implementations reviewed
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Farmer & Foley (2009) -- Nature perspective arguing ABMs should be standard tools for financial regulation
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Thurner, Farmer & Geanakoplos (2012) -- leverage causes fat tails through fire-sale spirals and margin-call cascades
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Paddrik et al. (2012) -- CFTC flash crash ABM used to evaluate circuit-breaker designs
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