Why stock markets crash
Subtitle: critical events in complex financial systems
By: Didier Sornette ; with a new preface by the author
Edition: Princeton Science Library edition.
Series: Princeton science library; Princeton science library
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780691175959
Subjects: Financial crises; Stock exchanges; Prices; Stocks; Complexity (Philosophy); Critical phenomena (Physics); History
Notes: Edition statement from preface, page xiii.

Previously published in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-418) and index.
Table of contents: title: Financial crashes: what, how, why, and when?; title: Fundamentals of financial markets; title: Financial crashes are "outliers"; title: Positive feedbacks; title: Modeling financial bubbles and market crashes; title: Hierarchies, complex fractal dimensions, and log-periodicity; title: Autopsy of major crashes: universal exponents and log-periodicity; title: Bubbles, crises, and crashes in emergent markets; title: Prediction of bubbles, crashes, and antibubbles; title: The end of the growth era?