Multi-scaling in finance

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-36

  Di Matteo, T ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Econophysics; Multifractal formalisms; Scaling; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847066645     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697680600969727     Document Type: Review

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