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The Statistical
Mechanics of
Financial Markets
Third Editon
With 99 Figures
^J Springer
Contents
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Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Why Physicists? Why Models of Physics?
1.3 Physics and Finance - Historical
1.4 Aims of this Book
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5.5.2 Micelles
5.5.3 Fluid Dynamics
5.5.4 The Dynamics of the Human Heart
5.5.5 Amorphous Semiconductors and Glasses
5.5.6 Superposition of Chaotic Processes
5.5.7 Tsallis Statistics
5.6 New Developments: Non-stable Scaling, Temporal
and Interasset Correlations in Financial Markets
5.6.1 Non-stable Scaling in Financial Asset Returns
5.6.2 The Breadth of the Market
5.6.3 Non-linear Temporal Correlations
5.6.4 Stochastic Volatility Models
5.6.5 Cross-Correlations in Stock Markets
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11.2.3 How Allocate Economic Capital?
11.2.4 Economic Capital as a Management Tool
11.3 The Regulatory Framework
11.3.1 Why Banking Regulation?
11.3.2 Risk-Based Capital Requirements
11.3.3 Basel I: Regulation of Credit Risk
11.3.4 Internal Models
11.3.5 Basel II: The New International Capital
Adequacy Framework
11.3.6 Outlook: Basel III and Basel IV
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