Financial liquidity: An emergent phenomena

Abstract

In a complex system model we simulate runs for different strategies of economic agents to study diverse types of fluctuations. The liquidity of financial assets arises as a result of agent's interaction and not as intrinsic properties of the assets. Small differences in the strategic rules adopted by the agents lead to divergent paths of market liquidity. Our simulation also supports the idea that the higher the maximum local allowed fluctuation the higher the path divergence.