Complexity Digest 2003.50 - 03.01
Dec. 15, 2003
A Web-Based Investigation Of Human Market Interactions, Physica A
Abstract: The unprecedented access offered by the World Wide Web brings with it the potential to gather huge amounts of data on human activities. Here we exploit this by using a toy model of financial markets, the Minority Game, to investigate human speculative trading behaviour and information capacity. Hundreds of individuals have played a total of tens of thousands of game turns (...). In particular, our results indicate a transition in players' decision-making, as the markets become more difficult, between deductive behaviour making use of short-term trends in the market, and highly repetitive behaviour that ignores entirely the market history (...).
- Source: The Interactive Minority Game: A Web-Based Investigation Of Human Market Interactions
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unifr.ch, Y.-C. Zhang, DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.07.002, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, online 2003/10/03 - Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinyahoo.co.in