Modeling the Effect of Loss Averse Bias on Return Rate and Stock Price Dynamics (Application of Agent-Based Modeling in Behavioral Finance)

Standard asset pricing models based on rational expectations and homogeneity have problems explaining the complex and volatile nature of financial markets. The heterogeneity in expectations can lead to market instability and complicate dynamics of prices, which are driven by endogenous market forces. Our aim is to point out that the investors’ irrationality explains various numbers of financial anomalies, especially the phenomena that traditional financials models have never been able to explain. using a behavioral finance approach and an agent-based model we examine the dynamics of stock price fluctuations and their rates of return in an artificial market composed of fundamentalists and non-fundamentalists with loss-adverse bias. our goal is to point out a posibility that loss-adverse feature of investors explains vast number of financial stylized fact and plays an important role in price formation of financial markets.The results of intensive analysis indicate that the existence of agents having heterogeneous beliefs and preferences has provided a better understanding of price dynamics in the financial market.