Why stock markets crash : critical events in complex financial systems /
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Princeton University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2003 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Princeton science library
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Item Description: | Originally written in 2002, it is vividly relevant for understanding the 2008 crisis as well as the very special present time. |
Carrier Form: | xxvi, 421 pages : illustrations, forms ; 22 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-418) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780691175959 (paperback) : 0691175950 (paperback) 9781400885091 (electronic book) 1400885094 (electronic book) |
Index Number: | HB3722 |
CLC: | F831.59-09 |
Call Number: | F831.59-09/S714/2017 |
Contents: | Financial crashes: what, how, why, and when? -- Fundamentals of financial markets -- Financial crashes are "outliers" -- Positive feedbacks -- Modeling financial bubbles and market crashes -- Hierarchies, complex fractal dimensions, and log-periodicity -- Autopsy of major crashes: universal exponents and log-periodicity -- Bubbles, crises, and crashes in emergent markets -- Prediction of bubbles, crashes, and antibubbles -- The end of the growth era? |