Stock market crashes are outliers
Abstract
We call attention against a widely held misconception according to which large crashes are the ``normally'' largest events of distributions of price variations with fat tails. We demonstrate on the weekly Dow Jones Industrial index that the five largest weekly losses in this century are outliers. This suggests that large crashes result from specific amplification processes that might lead to observable precursory signatures, as previously proposed.Keywords
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