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Modeling the Stock Market prior to large crashes

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We propose that the minimal requirements for a model of stock market price fluctuations should comprise time asymmetry, robustness with respect to connectivity between agents, ``bounded rationality'' and a probabilistic description. We also compare extensively two previously proposed models of log-periodic behavior of the stock market index prior to a large crash. We find that the model which follows the above requirements outperforms the other with a high statistical significance.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811066,
  title  = {Modeling the Stock Market prior to large crashes},
  author = {Anders Johansen and Didier Sornette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811066},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

18 pages with 4 figures. Submitted to Eur.Phys.J