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Financial power laws: Empirical evidence, models, and mechanism

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dc.creator Lux, Thomas
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:25:05Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:25:05Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3923
dc.identifier ppn:520839706
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:cauewp:5159
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/3923
dc.description Financial markets (share markets, foreign exchange markets and others) are all characterized by a number of universal power laws. The most prominent example is the ubiquitous finding of a robust, approximately cubic power law characterizing the distribution of large returns. A similarly robust feature is long-range dependence in volatility (i.e., hyperbolic decline of its autocorrelation function). The recent literature adds temporal scaling of trading volume and multi-scaling of higher moments of returns. Increasing awareness of these properties has recently spurred attempts at theoretical explanations of the emergence of these key characteristics form the market process. In principle, different types of dynamic processes could be responsible for these power-laws. Examples to be found in the economics literature include multiplicative stochastic processes as well as dynamic processes with multiple equilibria. Though both types of dynamics are characterized by intermittent behavior which occasionally generates large bursts of activity, they can be based on fundamentally different perceptions of the trading process. The present chapter reviews both the analytical background of the power laws emerging from the above data generating mechanism as well as pertinent models proposed in the economics literature.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Kiel
dc.relation Economics working paper / Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Department of Economics 2006,12
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Finanzmarkt
dc.subject Börsenkurs
dc.subject Kapitalertrag
dc.subject Theorie
dc.subject Zeitreihenanalyse
dc.subject Welt
dc.title Financial power laws: Empirical evidence, models, and mechanism
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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