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March  2017, 10(1): 239-261. doi: 10.3934/krm.2017010

A kinetic equation for economic value estimation with irrationality and herding

Bertram Düring 1, , Ansgar Jüngel 2, and  Lara Trussardi 2,

1. 

Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex, Pevensey Ⅱ, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
2. 

Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10,1040 Wien, Austria

Received  January 2016 Revised  May 2016 Published  November 2016

Fund Project: The first author is supported by the Leverhulme Trust research project grant "Novel discretisations for higher-order nonlinear PDE" (RPG-2015-69). The second and third authors acknowledge partial support from the European Union in the FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN Program under Grant Agreement Number 304617 and from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grants P22108, P24304, and W1245.

A kinetic inhomogeneous Boltzmann-type equation is proposed to model the dynamics of the number of agents in a large market depending on the estimated value of an asset and the rationality of the agents. The interaction rules take into account the interplay of the agents with sources of public information, herding phenomena, and irrationality of the individuals. In the formal grazing collision limit, a nonlinear nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation with anisotropic (or incomplete) diffusion is derived. The existence of global-in-time weak solutions to the Fokker-Planck initial-boundary-value problem is proved. Numerical experiments for the Boltzmann equation highlight the importance of the reliability of public information in the formation of bubbles and crashes. The use of Bollinger bands in the simulations shows how herding may lead to strong trends with low volatility of the asset prices, but eventually also to abrupt corrections.

Keywords: Inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation, public information, herding, Fokker-Planck equation, existence of solutions, sociophysics.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q20, 35Q84, 91G80, 35K65.
Citation: Bertram Düring, Ansgar Jüngel, Lara Trussardi. A kinetic equation for economic value estimation with irrationality and herding. Kinetic & Related Models, 2017, 10 (1) : 239-261. doi: 10.3934/krm.2017010
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[14]

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D. Hirshleifer, Investor psychology and asset pricing, J. Finance, 56 (2001), 1533-1597.   Google Scholar

[24]

P. Jahangiri, A. Nejat, J. Samadi and A. Aboutalebi, A high-order Monte Carlo algorithm for the direct simulation of Boltzmann equation, J. Comput. Phys., 231 (2012), 4578-4596.  doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.02.029.  Google Scholar

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Figure 1.  Left: Percentage of bubbles (left) and crashes (right) depending on the choice of $\alpha$ and $\beta$. The parameters are $R=0.025$, $W=0.5$, $\delta=\kappa=1$
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Figure 2.  Left: percentage of bubbles for varying $\alpha$ ($\beta=0.25$) and constant $\alpha$ ($\beta=0.5$ and $\beta=0.05$). Right: probability distribution function for the logarithmic return (in blue) and normal distribution (in magenta) with the same mean and variance as the return
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Figure 3.  Mean asset value $m_w(f(t))$ versus time $t$ for $\alpha=0.05$ (left) and $\alpha=0.5$ (right). The function $W(t)$ is represented by the solid line in between the dashed lines which represent the functions $W(t)+R$ and $W(t)-R$. The parameters are $\beta=0.25$, $R=0.025$, $\delta=2$, $\kappa=1$
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Figure 4.  Mean asset value $m_w(f(t))$ versus time for $\delta=0.01$ (left) and $\delta=100$ (right) with $\alpha=0.25$, $\beta=0.2$, $R=0.025$, $\kappa=1$
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Figure 5.  Mean asset value $m_w(f(t))$ and Bollinger bands $R^\pm(t)$ versus time for $\alpha=0.05$ (left) and $\alpha=0.2$ (right). The parameters are $\beta=0.25$, $W=0.5$, $\delta=1$, $\kappa=1$
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Figure 6.  Mean asset value $m_w(f(t))$ (left column) and Bollinger bands $R^\pm(t)$ (right column) versus time. The function $W(t)$ has a jump at $t=0.2$. The parameters are $\alpha=0.05$, $\beta=0.25$, $R=0.025$, $\delta=\kappa=1$. Upper row: $\eta=\pm 0.06$, lower row: $\eta=\pm 0.18$
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