Economy – Quantitative Finance – Statistical Finance
Scientific paper
2011-02-20
Phys. Rev. E 84, 016113 (2011)
Economy
Quantitative Finance
Statistical Finance
21 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
We study some properties of eigenvalue spectra of financial correlation matrices. In particular, we investigate the nature of the large eigenvalue bulks which are observed empirically, and which have often been regarded as a consequence of the supposedly large amount of noise contained in financial data. We challenge this common knowledge by acting on the empirical correlation matrices of two data sets with a filtering procedure which highlights some of the cluster structure they contain, and we analyze the consequences of such filtering on eigenvalue spectra. We show that empirically observed eigenvalue bulks emerge as superpositions of smaller structures, which in turn emerge as a consequence of cross-correlations between stocks. We interpret and corroborate these findings in terms of factor models, and and we compare empirical spectra to those predicted by Random Matrix Theory for such models.
Alfarano S.
Livan Giacomo
Scalas Enrico
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