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This paper aims at understanding the price dynamics generated by the interaction of traders relying on heterogeneous expectations in an asset pricing model. In the present work the authors analyze a financial market populated by five types of boundedly rational speculators-two types of fundamentalists, two types of chartists and trend followers which submit buying/selling orders according to different trading rules. The authors formulate a stock market model represented as a 2 dimensional piecewise linear discontinuous map. The proposed contribution to the existing financial literature is two aspects. First, the authors perform study of the model involving a 2 dimensional piecewise linear discontinuous map through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The authors focus on the existence conditions of chaos and the multi-stability regions in parameter plane. Related border collision bifurcation curves and basins of multi-attractors are also given. The authors find that chaos or quasi-period exists only in the case of fixed point being a saddle (regular or flip) and that the coexistence of multiple attractors may exist when the fixed point is an attractor, but it is common for spiral and flip fixed points.
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This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, South-Central University for Nationalities under Grant No. CZT20006.
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Gu, E. The Inherent Law of the Unpredictability of Financial Asset Price Fluctuations: Multistability and Chaos. J Syst Sci Complex 37, 776–804 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-024-1198-4
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