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Princeton University Press (2003)
Physics and Financial Economics(1776-2009)
Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks
Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Member of the Swiss Finance Institute
co-founder of the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Socio-Economic Systems, ETH Zurich (http://www.ccss.ethz.ch/)
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• Collective dynamics and organization of social agents (Commercial sales,YouTube, Open source softwares, Cyber risks)
• Agent-based models of bubbles and crashes, credit risks, systemic risks
• Prediction of complex systems, stock markets, social systems
• Asset pricing, hedge-funds, risk factors…
• Human cooperation for sustainability
• Natural and biological hazards (earthquakes, landslides, epidemics, critical illnesses…)
D-MTEC Chair of Entrepreneurial RisksProf. Dr. Didier Sornette www.er.ethz.ch
price
time
Bubbles
Dynamics of success
(3 guest-professors, 5 foreign associate professors,3 post-docs, 2 senior researcher, 12 PhD students, 4-6 Master students)
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Adam Smith “Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776)
•Francis Edgeworth and Alfred Marshall (1890) develop the concept of equilibrium
•“everything in the economy affects everything else”
•Vilfredo Pareto (1897): power law distribution of incomes
•Louis Bachelier (1900): random walk model of Paris stock market and solution of diffusion equation
•Benoit Mandelbrot (1963) proposes heavy-tailed distributions (Levy stable laws) for the pdf of cotton returns
•initially supported by Merton Miller, Eugene Fama, and Richard Roll (Chicago), Paul Samuelson (MIT), and Thomas Sargent (Carnegie Mellon), but opposition from Paul Cootner and Clive Granger;
•distributions of returns are becoming closer to the Gaussian law at timescales larger than one month. 4
•Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis PrincipiaMathematica (1687) [(novel at the time) notion of causative forces]
•Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann (1871-1875): equilibrium in gases
•mean-field theory or self-consistent effective medium methods
•distribution of event sizes (earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, storms, forest fires, solar flares, commercial sales, war sizes, ...)
•Einstein (1905): theory of Brownian motion
•Benoit Mandelbrot (1977): Fractals
•Much of the efforts in the econophysics (1993-2000s) refined the Levy hypothesis into
ECONOMICS PHYSICS
pdf(r) ! 1/r3>
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ECONOMICS PHYSICS
Adam Smith (1776)“Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”
Isaac Newton (1687)Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
notion of causative forces (novel at the time)
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ECONOMICS PHYSICS
Francis Edgeworth and Alfred Marshall (1890) develop the concept of equilibrium
“everything in the economy affects everything else”
Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann (1871-1875)equilibrium in gases
mean-field theory or self-consistent effective medium methods
Equilibrium
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ECONOMICS PHYSICS
Vilfredo Pareto (1897)power law distribution of incomes
distribution of event sizes (earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, storms, forest fires, solar flares, commercial sales, war sizes, ...)
Non-Gaussian heavy tailed distributions
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ECONOMICS PHYSICS
Louis Bachelier (1900)random walk model of Paris stock market and solution of diffusion equation
Einstein (1905)theory of Brownian motion
Theory of random walks and diffusion equation
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ECONOMICS PHYSICSBenoit Mandelbrot (1963) Heavy-tailed distributions (Levy stable laws) for the pdf of cotton returns
initially supported by Merton Miller, Eugene Fama, and Richard Roll (Chicago), Paul Samuelson (MIT), and Thomas Sargent (Carnegie Mellon), but opposition from Paul Cootner and Clive Granger
distributions of returns are becoming closer to the Gaussian law at timescales larger than one month.
Benoit Mandelbrot (1977)Fractals
Much of the efforts of econophysicists (1993-2000s) refined the Levy hypothesis into
self-similaritypdf(r) ! 1/r3
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ECONOMICS PHYSICS
-Paul Krugman (1996)“Self-organizing economy” -Brian Arthur (1992)Induction, out-of-equilibrium-Santa Fe Institute (1994-...)
P. W. Anderson (1957)“More is different” (1972)-Out-of-Equilibrium-frozen heterogeneity (spinglasses, glasses, proteins)
Out-of-equilibrium, frozen heterogeneity,Self-organization, phase transitions ....
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A partial lists of achievements of Econophysics
• scaling laws, “universality” • agent-based models, induction, evolutionary models [1, 9, 11, 21],• minority games [8], • option theory for incomplete markets [4, 6], • “string theory” of interest rate curves [5, 38], • theory of Zipf law and its economic consequences [12, 13, 27], • theory of large price fluctuations [14], • theory of bubbles and crashes [17, 22, 40],• random matrix theory applied to covariance of returns [20, 36, 37], • methods and models of dependence between financial assets [25,
43].
11G. Daniel and D. Sornette, Econophysics: historical perspectives, in the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance, edited by Rama Cont (www.wiley.com/go/eqf), Section: History of Quantitative Modeling (1st section out of 21), edited by Perry Mehrling and Murad Taqqu (http://arXiv.org/abs/0802.1416)
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(i) the fluctuation-susceptibility theorem transforms intoa remarkable classification of financial volatility shocks (endogenous versus exogenous),
(ii) the Ising model of phase transitions can be generalizedto model the stylized facts of financial markets,
(iii) the concepts of collective phenomena and phasetransitions (with spontaneous symmetry breaking) help understand financial bubbles and their following crashes,
(iv) the mathematics of quantum physics provides a new quantum decision theory solving the known paradoxes.
FOUR EXAMPLES
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• Self-organization? Extreme events are just part of the tail of power law distribution due to “self-organized criticality”?(endogenous)
•“Catastrophism”: extreme events require extreme causes that lie outside the system (exogenous)
•A mixture? How would it work?
Artwork by Elaine Wiesenfeld (from Bak, How Nature Works)
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Guidelines from Physics: perturb and study the response
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EXO:Drag resistanceunder an external force
ENDO: Random walk
(Einstein, 1905)
r2=2d Dt
D=kBT/γ
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Fluctuation-dissipation theorem far from equilibrium is not expected to hold
Externally imposed perturbations may be different from spontaneous fluctuations (external fluctuations lie outside the complex attractor)
Attractor of dynamics may exhibit bifurcations
D. Ruelle, Physics Today, May 2004
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(Roehner and Sornette, 2004)
The method of critical events in economics and social sciences
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Daily number of donations following the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004
(Crane, Schweitzer and Sornette, 2009)
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FINANCIAL SHOCKS
(Sornette, 2003)
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Volatility
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time
A. Arneodo, J.-F. Muzy and D. Sornette, Direct causal cascade in the stock market, European Physical Journal B 2, 277-282 (1998)
scale DIRECT CAUSAL HIERARCHICAL CASCADE
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D. Sornette, Y. Malevergne and J.F. Muzy, Volatility fingerprints of large shocks: Endogeneous versus exogeneous, Risk 16 (2), 67-71 (2003)((http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204626)
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10 min40 min160 min1 day1 week1 month
Multifractal random walk
Stylized facts in financial markets
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Multifractality:
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D. Sornette, Y. Malevergne and J.F. Muzy Volatility fingerprints of large shocks: Endogeneous versus exogeneous, Risk Magazine(http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204626)
October 1987 crash:totally different mechanism
(Multifractal Random Walk model)
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where
Interplay between-long memory-exponential
D. Sornette, Y. Malevergne and J.F. Muzy, Volatility fingerprints of large shocks: Endogeneous versus exogeneous, Risk 16 (2), 67-71 (2003) (http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204626)
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Analogy with Brownian motion
without conditioning:stationary process, average=0
conditioning to a large value W(t)=d :non-stationary process, average # 0
d
Volatility conditioned on an endogenous shockStationary volatility
average valueE[dW|d]=d/tE[dW]=0
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Real Data and Multifractal Random Walk model
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Endogenous versus ExogenousExtinctions -meteorite at the Cretaceous/Tertiary KT boundary -volcanic eruptions (Deccan traps) -self-organized critical eventsFinancial crashes -external shock -self-organized instabilityImmune system -external viral or bacterial attack - “ internal” (dis-)organizationBrain (learning) -external inputs -internal self-organization and reinforcements (role of sleep)
Recovery after wars? -internally generated (civil wars) -externally generated
Aviation industry recession -September 11, 2001 -structural endogenous problems
Volatility bursts in financial time series -external shock -cumulative effect of “small” news
Commercial success and sales -Ads -epidemic network Social unrests -triggering factors -rotting of social tissue
Discoveries -serendipity -maturation
Parturition -mother/foetus triggered? -mother-foetus complex?
Earthquakes -tectonic driving -triggering
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(i) the fluctuation-susceptibility theorem transforms intoa remarkable classification of financial volatility shocks (endogenous versus exogenous),
(ii) the Ising model of phase transitions can be generalizedto model the stylized facts of financial markets,
(iii) the concepts of collective phenomena and phasetransitions (with spontaneous symmetry breaking) help understand financial bubbles and their following crashes,
(iv) the mathematics of quantum physics provides a new quantum decision theory solving the known paradoxes.
FOUR EXAMPLES
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Various Bubbles and Crashes
Each bubble has been rescaled vertically and translatedto end at the time of the crash
time
price
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Textbook example of a series of superexponential acceleration followed by crashes
Arrows show peaks followed bycorrections of more than 15% in less than three weeks
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Hong-Kong
Red line is 13.8% per year: but The market is never following the average
growth; it is either super-exponentiallyaccelerating or crashing
Patterns of price trajectory during 0.5-1 year before each peak: Log-periodic power law
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Complex Systems
-positive feedbacks
-non sustainable regimes
-rupture
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For humans data at the time could not discriminate between:1. exponential growth of Malthus2. logistic growth of Verhulst
But data fit on animal population: sheep in Tasmania
- exponential in the first 20 years after their introduction and completely saturated after about half a century. ==> Verhulst
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38Multi-dimensional generalization: multi-variate positive feedbacks
Positive feedbacks and finite-time singularity
with
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Super-exponential growth
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Faster than exponential growth
1%2%4%…2n %
69y69/2y69/4y…69/2n y
POPULATION GROWTH RATE DOUBLING TIME
Population diverges in finite time69+69/2+69/4+69/8…=69x(1+1/2+1/4+1/8+…)=69x2=138y
Zeno paradox
Suppose GROWTH RATE doubles when POPULATION doubles
100020004000…2n x 1000
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Super-exponential growth of themajor indices over long time periods
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Finite-time Singularity
• Planet formation in solar system by run-away accretion of planetesimals
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Mechanisms for positive feedbacks in the stock market
• Technical and rational mechanisms 1. Option hedging2. Insurance portfolio strategies3. Trend following investment strategies4. Asymmetric information on hedging strategies
• Behavioral mechanisms: 1. Breakdown of “psychological Galilean invariance”2. Imitation(many persons)
a) It is rational to imitateb) It is the highest cognitive task to imitatec) We mostly learn by imitationd) The concept of “CONVENTION” (Orléan)
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Imitation
-Imitation is considered an efficient mechanism of social learning.
- Experiments in developmental psychology suggest that infants use imitation to get to know persons, possibly applying a ‘like-me’ test (‘persons which I can imitate and which imitate me’).
- Imitation is among the most complex forms of learning. It is found in highly socially living species which show, from a human observer point of view, ‘intelligent’ behavior and signs for the evolution of traditions and culture (humans and chimpanzees, whales and dolphins, parrots).
- In non-natural agents as robots, tool for easing the programming of complex tasks or endowing groups of robots with the ability to share skills without the intervention of a programmer. Imitation plays an important role in the more general context of interaction and collaboration between software agents and human users.
Humans Appear Hardwired To Learn By 'Over-Imitation'ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2007) — Children learn by imitating adults--so much so that they will rethink how an object works if they observe an adult taking unnecessary steps when using that object.
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Shiller (2000)
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Network effects and Collective behavior
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The breaking of macroscopic linear extrapolation
? Extrapolation?
BOILING PHASE TRANSITIONMore is different: a single molecule does not boil at 100C0
Simplest Example of a “More is Different” TransitionWater level vs. temperature
(S. Solomon)
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Statistical Mechanics Phase Transition
Atoms,MoleculesDrops,Bubbles
Anderson abstractization
Complexity MICRO
MACRO More is different
BiologySocial Science
Brain Science Economics and Finance
BusinessAdministration ICT
Semiotics and Ontology
Chemicals
E-pages
Neurons
Wordspeople
Customers
Traders
Cells,lifeMeaning
Social groups
WWW
Cognition, perception
Markets
Herds, Crashes
(S. Solomon)
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Example of “MORE IS DIFFERENT” transition in Finance:
Instead of Water Level: -economic index(Dow-Jones etc…)
Crash = result of collective behavior of individual traders(S. Solomon)
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Disorder : K small
OrderK large
Critical:K=criticalvalue
Renormalization group:Organization of thedescription scale by scale
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Imitation News
1. β<0: rational agents
• β>0: over-confident agents
Didier Sornette and Wei-Xing Zhou, Physica A 370 (2), 704-726 (2006)
(generalizes Carlos Pedro Gonçalves, who generalized Johansen-Ledoit-Sornette)
β: propensity to be influenced by the felling of others
Privateinformation
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Price clearing condition
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Illustration of the existence of an Ising-like phase transition, as a function of the control parameter bmax for both regimes β = -1 and β=1
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Bubbles and crashes
D. Sornette and W.-X. ZhouPredictability of Large Future Changes in major financial indices,International Journal of Forecasting 22, 153-168 (2006)
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Aggregation of information
G. Harras and D. Sornette, Endogenous versus exogenous origins of financial rallies and crashes in an agent-based model with Bayesian learning and imitation, J. Economic Behavior and Organization (2008) (http://arXiv.org/abs/0806.2989
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News impact
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(i) the fluctuation-susceptibility theorem transforms intoa remarkable classification of financial volatility shocks (endogenous versus exogenous),
(ii) the Ising model of phase transitions can be generalizedto model the stylized facts of financial markets,
(iii) the concepts of collective phenomena and phasetransitions (with spontaneous symmetry breaking) help understand financial bubbles and their following crashes,
(iv) the mathematics of quantum physics provides a new quantum decision theory solving the known paradoxes.
FOUR EXAMPLES
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DISCRETE HIERARCHYOF THE AGENT NETWORK
Co-evolution of brain size and group size (Why do we have a big Brain?)
Interplay between nonlinear positive and negative feedbacks and inertia
Discrete scale invariance Complex fractal dimension Log-periodicity
Presentation of three different mechanisms leading to discrete scale invariance, discrete hierarchies and log-periodic signatures
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Discrete scale invarianceComplex fractal dimensionLog-periodicity
1) d ∈ N Euclid (ca. 325-270 BC)
2) d ∈ R Mandelbrot (1960-1980)(Weierstrass, Hausdorff, Holder, …)
3) d ∈ C
Prefered scaling ratio is 3D(n) = ln4/ln3 + i 2πn/ln3
FRACTALS
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Fractal function(Weierstrass)
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“New Economy”: ICT
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Real-estate in the UK
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Real-estate in the USA
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bubble peaking in Oct. 2007
Source: R. Woodard (FCO, ETH Zurich)
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68Typical result of the calibration of the simple LPPL model to the oil price in US$ in shrinking windows with starting dates tstart moving up towards the common last date tlast = May 27, 2008.
2006-2008 Oil bubble
D. Sornette, R. Woodard and W.-X. Zhou, The 2006-2008 Oil Bubble and Beyond,Physica A 388, 1571-1576 (2009)(arXiv.org/abs/0806.1170)
Speculation vs supply-demand
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69Source: R. Woodard (FCO, ETH Zurich)
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(i) the fluctuation-susceptibility theorem transforms intoa remarkable classification of financial volatility shocks (endogenous versus exogenous),
(ii) the Ising model of phase transitions can be generalizedto model the stylized facts of financial markets,
(iii) the concepts of collective phenomena and phasetransitions (with spontaneous symmetry breaking) help understand financial bubbles and their following crashes,
(iv) the mathematics of quantum physics provides a new quantum decision theory solving the known paradoxes.
FOUR EXAMPLES
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Partial list of problems with standard Utility theory
• Allais paradox (Compatibility violation: Several choices are not compatible with utility theory)
• Ellsberg paradox (uncertainty aversion)
• Kahneman-Tversky paradox (invariance violation)
• Rabin paradox (payoff size effects)
• Disjunction effect (violation of the sure-thing principle)
• Conjunction fallacy (violation of probability theory)
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● Novel approach to decision making is developedbased on a complex Hilbert space over a lattice ofcomposite prospects.● Risk of loss and uncertainty are taken into account.● Paradoxes of classical decision theory are explained.● Good quantitative agreement with empirical data.● Conjunction fallacy is a sufficient condition fordisjunction effect.
V.I. Yukalov and D. Sornette (2009) Quantum Decision Theory, arXiv.org.0802.3597 (2008);Mathematical Basis of Quantum Decision Theory, ssrn.com/abstract=1263853
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A partial lists of achievements of Econophysics
• “universality” • agent-based models, induction, evolutionary models [1, 9, 11, 21], • option theory for incomplete markets [4, 6], • interest rate curves [5, 38], • minority games [8], • theory of Zipf law and its economic consequences [12, 13, 27], • theory of large price fluctuations [14], • theory of bubbles and crashes [17, 22, 40],• random matrix theory applied to covariance of returns [20, 36, 37], • methods and models of dependence between financial assets [25,
43].
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At present: most exciting progresses at the boundary between economics and the biological, cognitive, and behavioral sciences.
Physics has still a role to play as a unifying framework full of concepts and tools to deal with the complex.
The modeling skills of physicists explain their impressive number in investment and financial institutions (data-driven approach coupled with a pragmatic sense of theorizing)
KEY CHALLENGE: true trans-disciplinarity by “marriage”