Evidence of a worldwide stock market log-periodic anti-bubble since mid-2000

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 330, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 543-583

  Zhou, Wei Xing ^a   Sornette, Didier ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Anti bubble; Econophysics; Globalization; Log periodic power law; Stock markets; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVENTORY CONTROL; INVESTMENTS;

ECONOPHYSICS; STOCK MARKET;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0242607663     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2002.12.001     Document Type: Article

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