Regular paths in financial markets: Investigating the Benford's law

Jessica Riccioni and Roy Cerqueti

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2018, vol. 107, issue C, 186-194

Abstract: This paper aims at verifying whenever the Benford's Law is valid in the context of global stock markets, which are here viewed as complex systems. In so doing, we pursue the scope of assessing the presence of data regularities and interpret obtained discrepancies.

Keywords: Data science; Benford law; Stock markets; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2018.01.008

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