Herd Behavior and Financial Crashes: An Interacting Particle System Approach

Vincenzo Crescimanna and Luca Di Persio

Journal of Mathematics, 2016, vol. 2016, 1-7

Abstract:

We provide an approach based on a modification of the Ising model to describe the dynamics of stock markets. Our model incorporates three different factors: imitation, the impact of external news, and private information; moreover, it is characterized by coupling coefficients, static in time, but not identical for each agent. By analogy with physical models, we consider the temperature parameter of the system, assuming that it evolves with memory of the past, hence considering how former news influences realized market returns. We show that a standard Ising potential assumption is not sufficient to reproduce the stylized facts characterizing financial markets; this is because it assigns low probabilities to rare events. Hence, we study a variation of the previous setting providing, also by concrete computations, new insights and improvements.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1155/2016/7510567

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