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Progress in physical properties of Chinese stock markets

Frontiers of Physics volume 8, pages 438–450 (2013)Cite this article

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In the past two decades, statistical physics was brought into the field of finance, applying new methods and concepts to financial time series and developing a new interdiscipline “econophysics”. In this review, we introduce several commonly used methods for stock time series in econophysics including distribution functions, correlation functions, detrended fluctuation analysis method, detrended moving average method, and multifractal analysis. Then based on these methods, we review some statistical properties of Chinese stock markets including scaling behavior, long-term correlations, cross-correlations, leverage effects, antileverage effects, and multifractality. Last, based on an agent-based model, we develop a new option pricing model — financial market model that shows a good agreement with the prices using real Shanghai Index data. This review is helpful for people to understand and research statistical physics of financial markets.

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    Yuan Liang  (梁源), Guang Yang  (杨光) & Ji-Ping Huang  (黄吉平)

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Liang, Y., Yang, G. & Huang, JP. Progress in physical properties of Chinese stock markets. Front. Phys. 8, 438–450 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-013-0366-0

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Keywords

  • econophysics
  • Chinese stock market
  • statistical method
  • statistical physics