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Empirical and Theoretical Status of Discrete Scale Invariance in Financial Crashes

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  • Anders Johansen

    (UCLA)

  • Didier Sornette

    (UCLA & CNRS FRANCE)

  • Olivier Ledoit

    (Anderson Graduate School of Management)

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We present a synthesis of all the available empirical evidence in the light of recent theoretical developments for the existence of characteristic log-periodic signatures of growing bubbles in a variety of markets including 8 unrelated crashes from 1929 to 1998 on stock markets as diverse as the US, Hong-Kong or the Russian market and on currencies. To our knowledge, no major financial crash preceded by an extended bubble has occurred in the past 2 decades without exhibiting a similar log-periodic signature

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  • Anders Johansen & Didier Sornette & Olivier Ledoit, 1999. "Empirical and Theoretical Status of Discrete Scale Invariance in Financial Crashes," Finance 9903006, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpfi:9903006
    Note: Type of Document - postscript; prepared on Latex; pages: 20 ; figures: 11 fugures included. Submitted to Journal of Risk
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