Herd behavior in weight-driven information spreading models for financial market

Soon-Hyung Yook and Yup Kim

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, issue 26, 6605-6612

Abstract: We study two weight-driven information spreading models for financial market. In these models, we find that the activity threshold below which the ‘financial crash’ occurs can be increased by uneven distribution of information weight, compared with Eguíluz and Zimmermann model [V.M. Eguíluz, M.G. Zimmermann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 5659]. We also find that below the threshold the normalized return distribution, P(Z;Δt) satisfies P(Z=0;Δt)∼exp(−Δt/b) whereas P(Z=0;Δt)∼Δt−τ above the threshold. Here Δt is the time interval where the normalized return is defined, Z(t,Δt)=Z(t+Δt)−Z(t). By approximating the relative increase of P(Z;Δt=1) for large Z as Gaussian distribution with non-zero mean, we show that the non-zero mean of the Gaussian distribution can cause such exponentially decaying behavior of P(Z=0;Δt).

Keywords: Econophysics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.08.009

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