Significance of log-periodic precursors to financial crashes

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 452-471

  Sornette, Didier ^a,b   Johansen, Anders ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 85008770620     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1469-7688/1/4/305     Document Type: Article

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