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Economic Fluctuations and Diffusion
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Luis. A. Nunes Amaral +2
Stock price changes occur through transactions, just as diffusion in physical systems occurs through molecular collisions. We systematically explore this analogy and quantify the r…
Scaling of the distribution of price fluctuations of individual companies
V. Plerou, P. Gopikrishnan, L. A. N. Amaral +2
We present a phenomenological study of stock price fluctuations of individual companies. We systematically analyze two different databases covering securities from the three major…
Ivory Tower Universities and Competitive Business Firms
Vasiliki Plerou, Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan +2
There is nowadays considerable interest on ways to quantify the dynamics of research activities, in part due to recent changes in research and development (R&D) funding. Here, we s…
Scaling of the distribution of fluctuations of financial market indices
Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Vasiliki Plerou, Luis A. Nunes Amaral +2
We study the distribution of fluctuations over a time scale (i.e., the returns) of the S&P 500 index by analyzing three distinct databases. Database (i) contains approximately…
The statistical properties of the volatility of price fluctuations
Yanhui Liu, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Pierre Cizeau +3
We study the statistical properties of volatility---a measure of how much the market is likely to fluctuate. We estimate the volatility by the local average of the absolute price c…
Universal and non-universal properties of cross-correlations in financial time series
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Bernd Rosenow +2
We use methods of random matrix theory to analyze the cross-correlation matrix C of price changes of the largest 1000 US stocks for the 2-year period 1994-95. We find that the stat…