Author Description

This book spans several disciplines, bringing together elements of mathematics, biology, computing, psychology, finance, and artificial intelligence. Using an agent-based approach, I have developed a comprehensive model which is used to model and predict financial contagion. The innovative feature of my approach may be the application of Sigmund Freud s structural model of the psyche. By investigating the neurosis mechanism as it applies to participants in financial markets, I analyzes, in detail, the destructive impact of the herding effect.