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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
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bWorks at IEX Group Inc. This work was completed while she was a research assistant at the University of Michigan
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    • SIMULATION MODELING OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
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