Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2003-02-26
Phys. Rev. E 68, 056110 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
13 pages including 12 figures. Uses REVTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.68.056110
The time dependence of the recently introduced minimum spanning tree description of correlations between stocks, called the ``asset tree'' have been studied to reflect the economic taxonomy. The nodes of the tree are identified with stocks and the distance between them is a unique function of the corresponding element of the correlation matrix. By using the concept of a central vertex, chosen as the most strongly connected node of the tree, an important characteristic is defined by the mean occupation layer (MOL). During crashes the strong global correlation in the market manifests itself by a low value of MOL. The tree seems to have a scale free structure where the scaling exponent of the degree distribution is different for `business as usual' and `crash' periods. The basic structure of the tree topology is very robust with respect to time. We also point out that the diversification aspect of portfolio optimization results in the fact that the assets of the classic Markowitz portfolio are always located on the outer leaves of the tree. Technical aspects like the window size dependence of the investigated quantities are also discussed.
Chakraborti Anirban
Kanto A.
Kaski Kimmo K.
Kertesz Janos
Onnela Jukka-Pekka
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