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Sornette, Didier

Why stock markets crash critical events in complex financial systems - New Jersey Princeton University Press 2003 - xxvi, 421p. illustrations 22 cm - Princeton science library .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-418) and index.

Financial crashes: what, how, why, and when? -- Fundamentals of financial markets -- Financial crashes are "outliers" -- Positive feedbacks -- Modeling financial bubbles and market crashes -- Hierarchies, complex fractal dimensions, and log-periodicity -- Autopsy of major crashes: universal exponents and log-periodicity -- Bubbles, crises, and crashes in emergent markets -- Prediction of bubbles, crashes, and antibubbles -- The end of the growth era?

Standard No.: 9780691175959 52295

LCCN: 2016961393

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Stocks--Prices--History.
Financial crises--History--United States
Stock exchanges--History--United States
Critical phenomena (Physics)
Complexity (Philosophy)
Complexity (Philosophy)
Critical phenomena (Physics)
Financial crises
Stock exchanges
Stocks--Prices

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History

LC Class. No.: HB3722 / .S66 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 332.63222 / SO-W