Quantifying the behavior of stock correlations under market stress

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Preis, Tobias ^a,b,c   Kenett, Dror Y ^b,d   Stanley, H Eugene ^b   Helbing, Dirk ^e   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 84868299916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00752     Document Type: Article

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