Why stock markets crash : critical events in complex financial systems /

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Main Authors: Sornette, Didier, 1957
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton :
Publication Dates: 2017.
©2003
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: 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?