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Strategic Agent-Based Modeling of Financial Markets
Michael P. Wellman, Elaine Wah
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2017, 3 (1) 104-119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.1.06
Michael P. Wellman
aLynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan
Elaine Wah
bWorks at IEX Group Inc. This work was completed while she was a research assistant at the University of Michigan

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