Anticipating Economic Market Crises Using Measures of Collective Panic

Predicting panic is of critical importance in many areas of human and animal behavior, notably in the context of economics. The recent financial crisis is a case in point. Panic may be due to a specific external threat or self-generated nervousness. Here we show that the recent economic crisis and e...

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Main Authors: Harmon, Dion, Lagi, Marco, de Aguiar, Marcus A. M., Chinellato, David D., Braha, Dan, Epstein, Irving R., Bar-Yam, Yaneer
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506134/