Universal behavior of extreme price movements in stock markets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Fuentes, Miguel A ^a,b,c   Gerig, Austin ^a,d   Vicente, Javier ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c Instituto Balseiro and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STOCK MARKET; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENT; MARKETING;

COMMERCE; INVESTMENTS; MARKETING;

EID: 77949536912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008243     Document Type: Article

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