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Financial markets as adaptative ecosystems | Marc Potters
; Rama Cont
; Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
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18 Sep 1996 | Subject: | cond-mat | Affiliation: | 1,3) and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (2,1) ( Science & Finance CEA Saclay Universite de Nice | Abstract: | We show, by studying in detail the market prices of options on liquid markets, that the market has empirically corrected the simple, but inadequate Black-Scholes formula to account for two important statistical features of asset fluctuations: `fat tails’ and correlations in the scale of fluctuations. These aspects, although not included in the pricing models, are very precisely reflected in the price fixed by the market as a whole. Financial markets thus behave as rather efficient adaptive systems. | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/9609172 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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