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What CCFEA is

The Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA) is a leading edge laboratory-based interdisciplinary teaching and research centre. Having been fully established in 2004 with a Masters and a PhD Programme, CCFEA has been recognised as a world leader in the field.

The core research and teaching at CCFEA focuses on:

  • Computational Finance is oriented to the non-Gaussian characteristics of financial markets and operational aspects of financial markets, financial engineering, portfolio and risk management. Computational methods include Adaptive and Reinforced Learning Techniques, Heuristic Optimization and Evolutionary Computing.
  • Computational Economics is geared toward Agent Based Computational Economics (ACE), Computational Mechanism Design and Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems. ACE includes the use of artificially intelligent agents in the study of self-organising systems, the design of real time trading, risk and market-based institutions. This also has the potential to provide policy makers and financial institutions with a powerful interactive tool to find answers for 'what-if' questions and to do 'wind tunnel tests' for market and policy design. see some simulators

The interdisciplinary faculty at CCFEA attracts high-calibre postgraduate students with quantitative backgrounds in Economics, Finance, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics. In addition to the pursuit of theoretical aspects of the subject, strong industry links are sought via its City Associates.  

CCFEA is supported by the Department of Economics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Essex Business School and School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.

CCFEA is a member of the Computational Finance and Economics Network (organised by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).

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Last modified: 01 October 2011