paper

Expectation bubbles in a spin model of markets: Intermittency from frustration across scales

arXiv:cond-mat/0105224 · doi:10.1142/S0129183101001845

Abstract

A simple spin model is studied, motivated by the dynamics of traders in a market where expectation bubbles and crashes occur. The dynamics is governed by interactions which are frustrated across different scales: While ferromagnetic couplings connect each spin to its local neighborhood, an additional coupling relates each spin to the global magnetization. This new coupling is allowed to be anti-ferromagnetic. The resulting frustration causes a metastable dynamics with intermittency and phases of chaotic dynamics. The model reproduces main observations of real economic markets as power-law distributed returns and clustered volatility.

5 pages RevTeX, 5 figures eps, revised version

References in corpus (1)

Cited by in corpus (59)