Carl CHIARELLA School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway 2007, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia
Abstract: A number of recent empirical studies cast some doubt on the random walk theory of asset prices and suggest these display significant tr~.nsitory components and complex chaotic motion. This paper analyses a model of fundamentalists and chartists which can generate a number of dynamic regimes which are compatible with the recent empirical evidence.