Power laws in economics and finance: some ideas from physics

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Theory of collective opinion shifts: from smooth trends to abrupt swings (2005, background): “[27] These examples were actually proposed in [23, 24].”
Patterns in high-frequency FX data: discovery of 12 empirical scaling laws (2008, background): “, Bouchaud [2001], Barndorff-Nielsen and Prause [2001], Farmer and Lillo [2004], Lux [2006], Joulin et al. [2008]). In the challenge of identifying new scaling laws, we analyse the price data of the foreign exchange (FX) market, a complex network made of interacting agents: corporations, institution”
Complexity and Empirical Economics (2005, background): “…(1999), have been constructed to produce fat-tailed distributions in returns and long memory in volatility, two features whose empirical salience LeBaron (2001) has questioned; a similar exercise is developed in Farmer and 9 Bouchaud (2001) is a very readable overview of this type of theorising.”
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Heterogeneous Agent Models in Economics and Finance, In: Handbook of Computational Economics II: Agent-Based Computational Economics, edited by Leigh Tesfatsion and Ken Judd, Elsevier, Amsterdam 2006, pp.1109-1186 (2005, background): “Fundamental excess demand is assumed to be a linear function of the form D t = a(w(t)− p(t)), a > 0, (25)”