Stock market speculation: spontaneous symmetry breaking of economic valuation

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 355-375

  Sornette, Didier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; SALES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC VALUATION; FIRM FOUNDATION THEORY; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING; STOCK MARKET;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0034272967     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00261-2     Document Type: Article

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