Financial Market Complexity: What Physics Can Tell Us about Market Behaviour

by Neil F. Johnson, Paul Jefferies, Pak Ming Hui

Financial markets are a fascinating example of 'complexity in action': a real-world complex system whose evolution is dictated by the decisions of crowds of traders who are continually trying to win in a vast global 'game'. This book draws on recent ideas from the highly- topical science of complexity and complex systems, to address the following questions: how do financial markets behave? Why do financial markets behave in the way that they do? What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198526652
• ISBN13: 9780198526650
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.7"