“…Examples are, among others, Brock and Hommes (1997), Hommes (1998), Chiarella (1992), Chiarella et al (2001), Day and Huang (1990), Franke and Sethi (1998), Hommes (2001), Lux (1995Lux ( , 1998, Lux and Marchesi (1999). The heterogeneity of individuals and the global properties emerging from their interaction can be analyzed by means of specific statistical tools, as shown in Mantegna and Stanley (1999), and assumes a determinant descriptive role in models of financial markets, as in Hommes (2006), LeBaron (2006), and in models of order books, as in Raberto et al (2001), Chiarella and Iori (2002), Consiglio et al (2005), Gil-Bazo et al (2007), Chiarella et al (2009), Tedeschi et al (2012.…”