Inverse cubic law for the distribution of stock price variations

被引:392
作者
Gopikrishnan, P [1 ]
Meyer, M
Amaral, LAN
Stanley, HE
机构
[1] Boston Univ, Ctr Polymer Studies, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[2] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
关键词
PACS. 89.90.+n Other areas of general interest to physicists;
D O I
10.1007/s100510050292
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
The probability distribution of stock price changes is studied by analysing a database (the Trades and Quotes Database) documenting every trade for all stocks in three major US stock markets, for the two year period January 1994 - December 1995. A sample of 40 million data points is extracted, which is substantially larger than studied hitherto. We find an asymptotic power-law behavior for the cumulative distribution with an exponent alpha approximate to 3, well outside the Levy regime (0 < alpha < 2).
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