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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-1221
• DOI: 10.1016/s0898-1221(98)90747-7

✦ Synopsis

Foreword by Ralph E. Gomory. I. Nonmathematical presentations. Preface (1996). El. Introduction (1996). E2. Discontinuity and scaling: Scope and likely limitations (1996). E3. New methods in statistical economics (M 1963e). F_A. Sources of inspiration and historical background (1996). II. Mathematical presentations. E5. States of randomness from mild to wild, and concentration in the short, medium and long run (1996). E6. Self-similarity and panorama of self-affinity (1996). E7. Rank-size plots, Zipf's law, and scaling (1996). E8. Proportional growth with or without diffusion, and other explanations of scaling (1996). Appendices (M 19640, M 1974d). E9. A case against the lognormal distribution (1996). III. Personal incomes and firm sizes. El0. L-stable model for the distribution of income (M 1960i). Appendices (M 1963i, M 1963j). Ell. L-stability and multiplicative variation of income (M 1961e). El2. Scaling distributions and income maximization (M 1962q). El3. Industrial concentration and scaling (1996). IV. The M 1963 model of price variation. El4. The variation of certain speculative prices (M 1963b). Appendices (Fama & Blume 1996, M 1972b, M 1982c). El5. The variation of the price of cotton, wheat, and railroad stocks, and of some financial rates (M 1967j). El6. Mandelbrot on price variation (Fama 1963). (A guest contribution by E.F. Fama). E17. Comments by P.H. Cootner, E. Parzen & W.S. Morris (1960s), and responses (1996). E18. Computation of the L-stable distributions (1996). V. Beyond the M 1963 model. E19. Nonlinear forecasts, rational bubbles, and martingales (M 1966b). E20. Limitations of efficiency and martingales (M 1971e). E21. Self-affine variation in fractai time (Section 1 is by W.H. Taylor) (M & Taylor 1967(M & Taylor , M 1973c). Cumulative bibliography. Index.