Causal slaving of the US treasury bond yield antibubble by the stock market antibubble of August 2000

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 337, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 586-608

  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

Antibubble; Causality; Econophysics; Stock market; Yield

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CORRELATION METHODS; FEEDBACK; FINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY;

ANTIBUBBLE; CASUALITY; ECONOPHYSICS; STOCK MARKET;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 2342471385     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

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