Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2010-03-16
EPJ B 79, 91-98 (2011)
Physics
Physics and Society
8 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjb/e2010-10668-8
We study simultaneous price drops of real stocks and show that for high drop thresholds they follow a power-law distribution. To reproduce these collective downturns, we propose a minimal self-organized model of cascade spreading based on a probabilistic response of the system elements to stress conditions. This model is solvable using the theory of branching processes and the mean-field approximation. For a wide range of parameters, the system is in a critical state and displays a power-law cascade-size distribution similar to the empirically observed one. We further generalize the model to reproduce volatility clustering and other observed properties of real stocks.
Gualdi Stanislao
Medo Matus
Zhang Yi-Cheng
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