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Scaling and Memory in Stock Market and Currency Variations: Similarities To Earthquakes
Scaling and Memory in Stock Market and Currency Variations: Similarities To Earthquakes
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Return intervals
Stock market data Currency series
Earthquakes
Normalized absolute return
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Scaling in distributions
probability
distribution to have
a return interval
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Stock market Currency Earthquakes
Scaling function
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Memory in the records
Conditional probability
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Memory in the distributions
Stock market Currency
Earthquakes
Clustering of extreme events
Scaling function
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Memory in the averages
Stock market Currency
Earthquakes
mean conditional
return interval
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Summary
Scaling of return intervals
Well approximated by single scaled function.
Strong effect of memory
Origin: long-term correlations in the volatilities.
Strong similarity in both scaling (for different q) and
memory to earthquakes.
Application: improving risk assessment.
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V. Livina, S. Tuzov, S. Havlin, A.Bunde, Recurrence
intervals between earthquakes strongly depend on
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A. Bunde, J. Eichner, J. Kantelhardt, S. Havlin, Long-
term memory: natural mechanism for the clustering of
extreme events and anomalous residual times in climate
Records (PRL, to appear).
K. Yamasaki, S. Havlin, A. Bunde, H. E. Stanley, Scaling
and memory in volatility return intervals in stock markets
(to appear)
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