How the financial crash of October 1997 could have been predicted

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-141

  Vandewalle, N ^a   Ausloos, M ^a   Boveroux, Ph ^a   Minguet, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

01.75.+m Science and society; 89.90.+n Other areas of general interest to physicists

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW;

ECONOMIC INDEX; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; STOCK MARKET;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 0031642656     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100510050361     Document Type: Article

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