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Market dynamics immediately before and after financial shocks: quantifying the Omori, productivity and Bath laws
Alexander M. Petersen, Fengzhong Wang, Shlomo Havlin +1
We study the cascading dynamics immediately before and immediately after 219 market shocks. We define the time of a market shock T_{c} to be the time for which the market volatilit…
Detrending career statistics in professional baseball: Accounting for the steroids era and beyond
Alexander M. Petersen, Orion Penner, H. Eugene Stanley
There is a long standing debate over how to objectively compare the career achievements of professional athletes from different historical eras. Developing an objective approach wi…
Scale invariant properties of public debt growth
Alexander M. Petersen, Boris Podobnik, Davor Horvatic +1
Public debt is one of the important economic variables that quantitatively describes a nation's economy. Because bankruptcy is a risk faced even by institutions as large as governm…