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....participant s objective is to maximize surplus, defined as (limit price trade price) for buyers and (trade price limit price) for sellers. The assumptions of fixed roles and fixed limit prices conform to extensive prior studies of the CDA, including experiments involving human subjects [Smith, 1962; 1982] and automated bidding agents [Cliff and Bruten, 1997; Gjerstad and Dickhaut, 1998] Under such assumptions, a market consisting of rational players will eventually converge to steady trading at an equilibrium price p , at which there is a balance between Supply (the total number of ....

....can be bought for positive surplus) For each participant, one can define a theoretical surplus as the total surplus that would be obtained if all units traded at p . One can also define a participant s efficiency as the ratio of actual surplus to theoretical surplus. In human subject studies [Smith, 1962; 1982] convergence close to equilibrium was found within several periods, with the approach towards p exhibiting a scalloped shape (i.e. a decelerating curved trajectory) of progressively smaller amplitude in each successive period. Robust convergence to equilibrium was also found in ....

V. L. Smith. An experimental study of competitive market behavior. Journal of Political Economy, 70:111--137, 1962.

....thorough monitoring and tracking of over several hundred participants activities in distributed network environments without losing the controls required for hypothesis testing (Fig. 1) This improvement due to a technological breakthrough is comparable, if not more significant than, Smith s [39,40] improvements on earlier competitive market experiments in economics, such as those done by Chamberlin. One of the major contributions Smith made in experimental economics is that he identified Table 1 Research approaches for a digital economy Laboratory experiments Virtual field experiments ....

....of information access and interaction. The electronic (virtual) community setting and market information boards deliver information that participants need to know. In most economics experiments in the past, these pieces of information were written on a blackboard in the classroom or laboratory [39,40]. Using this experimental setting, Plott and Smith [35] compared various trading institutions, and they show the inefficiencies that can result from a rule that limits the ability of traders to deviate from posted prices. Sharing trading information, such as prices and quantities available and ....

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....accept a seller s offer at any time. Market experiments have established that transaction prices converge quickly to a competitive equilibrium price in the DA for a wide variety of market environments. Experimental investigation of trader behavior and market performance in the DA began with Smith [12]. Smith induced supply and demand conditions by giving buyers a redemption value for each unit of an abstract commodity purchased, and by giving sellers a cost for each unit of this abstract commodity sold. Buyers receive surplus equal to the difference between their redemption value and the ....

Smith, V.L.: An Experimental Study of Competitive Market Behavior. Journal of Political Economy LXX (1962) 111-137

....economic theorists, and as a result there have been numerous theoretical and empirical studies of CDAs. Experiments with human subjects in laboratory simulations of CDAs have found reliable and rapid convergence of prices to values extremely close to the theoretical competitive equilibrium values [10, 11]. There have also been several studies of CDAs with various types of computerized bidding agents [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9] A major comparative study of several di erent agent trading strategies was performed in the Santa Fe Double Auction Tournament (SFDAT) Rust et al. 8] Over 30 di erent ....

V. L. Smith. An experimental study of competitive market behavior. J. of Political Economy, 70:111-137, 1962.

....that, in general, this is an approximation to reality, and from a theoretical point of view requires a large number of traders. This assumption means that the traders act as price takers: the action of an individual trader will not e#ect the equilibrium price. However, experimental work ([15]) has shown that in practice even a small number of traders (5 buyers and 5 sellers) converge rapidly to this equilibrium price, and trade prices do not deviate significantly after stabilization. For that reason, we use this classical definition of equilibrium as the basis of our work. General ....

....which deomnstrate empirically that a community of IS ZIP agents trading in a variety of supply demand conditions result in convergence of trade towards the predicted equilibrium patterns described in section 2.2. 4. 1 Experimental Procedures Our experimental setup is based on that used by Smith [15] with human subjects, and later applied by Cli# and Bruten [3] to ZIP agents. We assign valuations and reservation prices to a set of buyers and a set of sellers, who repeatedly trade in a double auction environment as described in section 2.1. Each experiment is divided into 500 days . At the ....

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....channels, ground and messages the agent can bundle together during interaction. One could even envisage an interaction equilibrium emerging with only two agents over time. Certainly, experiments in auction trading have shown that very few agents are needed to replicate normal market equilibrium [18,19] Having said this, the opportunities for interaction are enlarged when there is inter agent competition, so it is a sufficient rather than necessary condition for the emergence of interaction equilibria. Money is not exchanged during an interaction, so there is no external measure of utility, ....

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.... artificial trading agents, introduced in 1997 [1] are software agents (or robots ) that use simple machine learning techniques to adapt to operating as buyers or sellers in open outcry auction market environments similar to those used in the experimental economics work of Smith (e.g. [2]) Although initially developed purely to address deficiencies in Gode Sunder s ZI C traders [3] recent experimental work by Das et al. at IBM [4] has shown that ZIP traders (unlike ZI Cs) consistently out perform human traders in humanagainst robot auction marketplaces. The operation of ZIP ....

.... successfully demonstrated in experimental versions of continuous double auction (CDA) markets similar to those found in the international markets for commodities, equities, capital, and derivatives; and in posted offer auction markets similar to those seen in domestic high street retail outlets [1,2]. In any such market, there are a number of parameters that govern the adaptation and trading processes of the ZlP traders. Originally, the values of these parameters were set by hand, using educated guesses [1] However, at CIFEr 98, the first results were presented from using a standard ....

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....at all. Gode and Sunder [14] presented results using zero intelligence (zi) agents which suggested that by means of random stochastic bids and o ers the market would still approach an equilibrium price in very similar circumstances to that achieved in earlier experiments with human subjects [15]. In light of this, Gode and Sunder claimed that the dynamics of market activity was largely if not solely due to the market structure in operation. But this was subsequently shown to be an inaccurate claim [3] as Gode and Sunder s results turned out to be an artefact of the implementation they ....

....prices stabilise at around 2.00. The speed by which the zip agents are facilitating market equilibration is a positive sign and indicates that the simulation is working as expected. 26 Figure 3.1: Symmetric supply and demand curves with 11 buyers and 11 sellers, where P 0 = 2. 00 (taken from [15] and [3] Figure 3.2: Mean transaction prices, averaged over 50 zip trials, for the supply and demand curves shown in Figure 3.1 (P 0 = 2.00) The middle line is the mean value, upper and lower lines indicates the mean plus and minus one standard deviation. 27 Figure 3.3: Smith s alpha value, ....

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.... question: what is the minimal intelligence required in market participants to create an e#cient market Gode and Sunder first asked this question in [2] where they compared zero intelligence agents that bid randomly between lower and upper bounds to experiments with human traders done by Smith [8]. They concluded that the market mechanism itself, and not the intelligence of the traders, was su#cient for the market to settle at equilibrium price. Cli# and Bruten [1] later investigated this question further and showed that such zero intelligence agents only work given certain supply and ....

....chance of each. Pr , the new resource arrival rate is set to 0.1. Figure 3 shows the series of trade prices produced in a peer to peer trail with 2,500 agents. We see that these indeed start out widely scattered and over time converge within 1.3 units of the equilibrium price of 149.6. Smith in [8] introduced a way of appraising how close a set of n trade prices p i are to equilibrium, # = 100 q P n i=1 (p i P0 ) 2 n P0 , a measure of the standard deviation of trade prices from the equilibrium trade price. Graphing # over time gives us a quantification of how quickly an ....

Smith, V.: An Experimental Study of Competitive Market Behavior. The Journal of Political Economy, 70:2 (1962) 111--137

....In the CDA, bids and asks may be submitted and traded at any time during the trading period. The CDA is the dominant institution for real world trading of equities, derivatives, etc. Experiments with human subjects in simulated CDAs find reliable price convergence close to theoretical equilibria [9, 10]. Several studies examined CDAs with various computerized bidding agents [1, 2, 4, 5, 8] including a major comparative study in the Santa Fe Double Auction Tournament (SFDAT) 7] The principal conclusion was that Todd Kaplan s simple sniping strategy, which waits for the bid ask Permission ....

V. L. Smith. An experimental study of competitive market behavior. J. of Political Economy, 70:111--137, 1962.

....the price series in budget constrained ZI trader markets converges to the equilibrium level almost as precisely as the price series from human trader markets does. Convergence can have a more restricted meaning when learning is possible over a series of repeated market periods for example Smith[1962] discovered all the trades in a period may occur at the CE price given sufficient repetition of that period. Gjerstad and Dickhaut [1998; ft. 5] use this stricter notion in evaluating their model: We argue that prices in a stable market environment converge, if, after several periods, the mean ....

....theory. Indeed, Walras invented the concept of tatonnement to illustrate how convergence to equilibrium could occur without the intervening influences of a trading path. The fear was that disequilibrium trades could change the equilibrium. Similarly, early experiments (Chamberlin 4 [1948] and Smith 5 [1962]) were clearly concerned about the possibility that trades, especially trades involving extramarginal units, could change the equilibrium by shifting the intersection of what they call the moving supply and demand. Chamberlin[1948] argued that one consequence of such a moving (or instantaneous) ....

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.... is that it concerned the study of behaviorally complete markets; that is all trades, including purchases as well as sales, were executed by active subject agents This feature has continued m the subsequent bilateral bargaining experiments of Siegel and Fouraker (1960) and in market experiments (Smith, 1962, 1982; Williams and Smith, 1984) such as those discussed in section I. This feature was not present in the early and subsequent experimental oligopoly literature (Hoggatt, 1959; Sauermann and Selten, 1959; Shubik, 1962; Friedman, 1963) in which the demand behaviour of buyers was simulated, that ....

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....regime. Following this, zero intelligence plus (zip) traders are introduced: like zi traders, these simple agents make stochastic bids. Unlike zi traders, they employ an elementary form of machine learning. Groups of zip traders interacting in experimental markets similar to those used by Smith (1962) and Gode and Sunder (1993) are demonstrated, and we show that the performance of zip traders is significantly closer to the human data than is the performance of Gode and Sunder s zi traders. Because zi traders are too simple, we offer zip traders as a slight upward revision of the ....

....Software Agents, Bristol, September 1996, and at the Internet Telephony Interoperability Consortium meeting, Bristol, June 1997: we thank the participants of those meetings for their comments. Thanks also to Chris Priest for his comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. 1 1 Introduction Smith (1962) demonstrated that the transaction prices of remarkably small groups of human traders, operating in experimental continuous double auction markets, rapidly approach the theoretical equilibrium price. But human beings are notoriously smart creatures: the question of just how much intelligence is ....

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....see his collection of papers spanning 30 years of research [52] Section 2.2.2 then briefly summarizes work done by Gode Sunder on zero intelligence traders that act randomly within cda markets yet appear to give human like market behavior. 2.2. 1 Early Studies of Market Behavior Smith [51] reported on experiments performed over a sixyear period starting in 1955. All of the experimental regimes are similar to that described above: a cohort of human subjects are divided into a group of sellers and a group of buyers, and the two groups then trade within some specified market ....

....day is characterized by early transactions taking place at prices that differ significantly from the P 0 value: as the day progresses, transaction prices approach P 0 . On subsequent days, transaction prices are initially nearer P 0 , and approach it faster. In most of the experiments described by [51], only the prices of agreed transactions were recorded. To better characterize the convergence of transaction prices, Smith introduced a coefficient of convergence , ff, that is computed at the end of each day s trading in the market. This is defined as ff = 100oe 0 =P 0 , where, for a set of n ....

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