Power law relaxation in a complex system: Omori law after a financial market crash

dc.creatorLillo, Fabrizio
dc.creatorMantegna, Rosario N.
dc.date2001-11-14
dc.date2003-06-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:06:37Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:06:37Z
dc.descriptionWe study the relaxation dynamics of a financial market just after the occurrence of a crash by investigating the number of times the absolute value of an index return is exceeding a given threshold value. We show that the empirical observation of a power law evolution of the number of events exceeding the selected threshold (a behavior known as the Omori law in geophysics) is consistent with the simultaneous occurrence of (i) a return probability density function characterized by a power law asymptotic behavior and (ii) a power law relaxation decay of its typical scale. Our empirical observation cannot be explained within the framework of simple and widespread stochastic volatility models.
dc.description4 pages,4 figures, accepted in PRE
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111257
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111257
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/208704
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectStatistical Finance
dc.titlePower law relaxation in a complex system: Omori law after a financial market crash
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