Description
The book is motivated by the disruptions introduced by the financial crisis and the many attempts that have followed to propose new ideas and remedies.
Assembling contributions by authors from a variety of backgrounds, this collection illustrates the potentials resulting from the marriage of financial economics, complexity theory and an out-of-equilibrium view of the economic world. Challenging the traditional hypotheses that lie behind financial market functioning, new evidence is provided about the hidden factors fuelling bubbles, the impact of agents’ heterogeneity, the importance of endogeneity in the information transmission mechanism, the dynamics of herding, the sources of volatility, the portfolio optimization techniques, the financial innovation and the trend identification in a nonlinear time-series framework.
Presenting the advances made in financial market analysis, and putting emphasis on nonlinear dynamics, this book suggests interdisciplinary methodologies for the study of well-known stylised facts and financial abnormalities. This book was originally published as a special issue of The European Journal of Finance.
Table of Contents
Introduction – New facets of the economic complexity in modern financial markets
Catherine Kyrtsou and Didier Sornette
1. Diagnostics of rational expectation financial bubbles with stochastic mean-reverting termination times
Li Lin and Didier Sornette
2. Everything you always wanted to know about log-periodic power laws for bubble modeling but were afraid to ask
Petr Geraskin and Dean Fantazzini
3. Heterogeneous expectations and exchange rate dynamics
Carl Chiarella, Xue-Zhong He and Min Zheng
4. Asymmetric returns, gradual bubbles and sudden crashes
Weihong Huang, Huanhuan Zheng and Wai-Mun Chia
5. Epidemics of rules, rational negligence and market crashes
Kartik Anand, Alan Kirman and Matteo Marsili
6. A note on institutional hierarchy and volatility in financial markets
S. Alfarano, M. Milaković and M. Raddant
7. Identifying reference companies using the book-to-market ratio: a minimum spanning tree approach
David Brookfield, Halim Boussabaine and Chen Su
8. Risk sharing in a financial market with endogenous option prices
Jan Wenzelburger
9. Performance analysis of a collateralized fund obligation (CFO) equity tranche
Shady Aboul-Enein, Georges Dionne and Nicolas Papageorgiou
10. Optimal liquidation strategies regularize portfolio selection
Fabio Caccioli, Susanne Still, Matteo Marsili and Imre Kondor
11. Nonlinear dynamics in economics and finance and unit root testing
Efthymios G. Pavlidis, Ivan Paya, David A. Peel and Costas Siriopoulos
