Turbulence in financial markets: The surprising explanatory power of simple cascade models

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 632-640

  Lux, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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EID: 85012532241     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1469-7688/1/6/305     Document Type: Article

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