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most citedUncovering the Dynamics of Correlation Structures Relative to the Collective Market Motion

46 citations · 78 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

q-fin.ST2026

Extreme Value Analysis for Finite, Multivariate and Correlated Systems with Finance as an Example

Benjamin Köhler, Anton J. Heckens, Thomas Guhr

Extreme values and the tail behavior of probability distributions are essential for quantifying and mitigating risk in complex systems of all kinds. In multivariate settings, accou…

q-fin.TR2025★ 1 cited

Ultrafast Extreme Events: Empirical Analysis of Mechanisms and Recovery in a Historical Perspective

Luca Henrichs, Anton J. Heckens, Thomas Guhr

To understand the emergence of Ultrafast Extreme Events (UEEs), the influence of algorithmic trading or high-frequency traders is of major interest as they make it extremely diffic…

q-fin.TR2025★ 1 cited

A New Traders' Game? -- Empirical Analysis of Response Functions in a Historical Perspective

Cedric Schuhmann, Benjamin Köhler, Anton J. Heckens +1

Traders on financial markets generate non-Markovian effects in various ways, particularly through their competition with one another which can be interpreted as a game between diff…

q-fin.ST2024

Multivariate Distributions in Non-Stationary Complex Systems II: Empirical Results for Correlated Stock Markets

Anton J. Heckens, Efstratios Manolakis, Cedric Schuhmann +1

Multivariate Distributions are needed to capture the correlation structure of complex systems. In previous works, we developed a Random Matrix Model for such correlated multivariat…

q-fin.ST2024★ 2 cited

Multivariate Distributions in Non-Stationary Complex Systems I: Random Matrix Model and Formulae for Data Analysis

Efstratios Manolakis, Anton J. Heckens, Benjamin Köhler +1

Risk assessment for rare events is essential for understanding systemic stability in complex systems. As rare events are typically highly correlated, it is important to study heavy…

q-fin.ST2022★ 11 cited

New Collectivity Measures for Financial Covariances and Correlations

Anton J. Heckens, Thomas Guhr

Complex systems are usually non-stationary and their dynamics is often dominated by collective effects. Collectivity, defined as coherent motion of the whole system or of some of i…

q-fin.RM2021★ 17 cited

A New Attempt to Identify Long-term Precursors for Endogenous Financial Crises in the Market Correlation Structures

Anton J. Heckens, Thomas Guhr

Prediction of events in financial markets is every investor's dream and, usually, wishful thinking. From a more general, economic and societal viewpoint, the identification of indi…

q-fin.ST2020★ 46 cited

Uncovering the Dynamics of Correlation Structures Relative to the Collective Market Motion

Anton J. Heckens, Sebastian M. Krause, Thomas Guhr

The measured correlations of financial time series in subsequent epochs change considerably as a function of time. When studying the whole correlation matrices, quasi-stationary pa…