Critical Phenomena

Critical Phenomena in Financial Markets and Social Networks

Prof. Christof Schmidhuber, ZHAW School of Engineering

Feb 27, 16:00 - 17:00

B9 L2 R2322

Financial Market Social Network Analysis Critical Phenomena Arbitrageurs

Analogies between financial markets and critical phenomena have long been observed empirically. So far, no convincing theory has emerged that can explain these empirical observations. Here, we take a step towards such a theory by modeling financial markets as a lattice gas.