Research Article

The Hesitation of Anxious Traders in an Agent-Based Model

Table 5

Skewness and kurtosis of returns. Note: This table reports the outcomes of reproducing fat-tailed returns using the parameters from Zhu et al. [35] and Amilon [82]. The skewness and kurtosis of returns are calculated, respectively, in rational and irrational scenarios. d suggests the degree of behavioral hesitation and decision rigidity of the anxious agent.

dSkewnessKurtosis

Panel A: the rational scenario
13.20119.120
23.22319.277
33.24619.453
43.20719.188
53.23019.347

Panel B: the irrational scenario
13.22319.303
23.21319.237
33.19719.116
43.20019.129
53.21019.164