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Financial Market Microstructure ABM Model

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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