Social physics

M Jusup, P Holme, K Kanazawa, M Takayasu, I Romić… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Multiscale characteristics of the emerging global cryptocurrency market

M Wątorek, S Drożdż, J Kwapień, L Minati… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Modern financial markets are characterized by a rapid flow of information, a vast number of
participants having diversified investment horizons, and multiple feedback mechanisms …

Multifractal analysis of financial markets: A review

ZQ Jiang, WJ Xie, WX Zhou… - Reports on Progress in …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Multifractality is ubiquitously observed in complex natural and socioeconomic systems.
Multifractal analysis provides powerful tools to understand the complex nonlinear nature of …

[HTML][HTML] On the stability of stablecoins

K Grobys, J Junttila, JW Kolari, N Sapkota - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the volatility processes of stablecoins and their potential stochastic
interdependencies with Bitcoin volatility. We employ a novel approach to choose the optimal …

Power laws in economics: An introduction

X Gabaix - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016 - aeaweb.org
Many of the insights of economics seem to be qualitative, with many fewer reliable
quantitative laws. However a series of power laws in economics do count as true and …

Power laws in economics and finance

X Gabaix - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2009 - annualreviews.org
A power law (PL) is the form taken by a large number of surprising empirical regularities in
economics and finance. This review surveys well-documented empirical PLs regarding …

Physical approach to complex systems

J Kwapień, S Drożdż - Physics Reports, 2012 - Elsevier
Typically, complex systems are natural or social systems which consist of a large number of
nonlinearly interacting elements. These systems are open, they interchange information or …

How stable are stablecoins?

LT Hoang, DG Baur - The European Journal of Finance, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyzes the stability of stablecoins and proposes a framework to test for
absolute and relative stability of stablecoins. Based on high-frequency data, we find strong …

A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations

X Gabaix, P Gopikrishnan, V Plerou, HE Stanley - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Insights into the dynamics of a complex system are often gained by focusing on large
fluctuations. For the financial system, huge databases now exist that facilitate the analysis of …

Random matrix approach to cross correlations in financial data

V Plerou, P Gopikrishnan, B Rosenow, LAN Amaral… - Physical Review E, 2002 - APS
We analyze cross correlations between price fluctuations of different stocks using methods
of random matrix theory (RMT). Using two large databases, we calculate cross-correlation …