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Power law and evolutionary trends in stock markets

Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5062105 Economics Letters 2008 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

We model the distribution of daily stock trading volume using the power law and document a new phenomenon. The power law exponent systematically increases with time suggesting that trading is becoming increasingly concentrated in a subset of stocks.

Keywords
G10D39H39Stock trading volumeZipf's law
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Social Sciences and Humanities Economics, Econometrics and Finance Economics and Econometrics
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Power law and evolutionary trends in stock markets
Authors
P.V. (Sundar) Balakrishnan, James M. Miller, S. Gowri Shankar,
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Economics Letters
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