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Spectrum, Intensity and Coherence in Weighted Networks of a Financial Market
We construct a correlation matrix based financial network for a set of New
York Stock Exchange (NYSE) traded stocks with stocks corresponding to nodes and
the links between them added one after the other, according to the strength of
the correlation between the nodes. The eigenvalue spectrum of the correlation
matrix reflects the structure of the market, which also shows in the cluster
structure of the emergent network. The stronger and more compact a cluster is,
the earlier the eigenvalue representing the corresponding business sector
occurs in the spectrum. On the other hand, if groups of stocks belonging to a
given business sector are considered as a fully connected subgraph of the final
network, their intensity and coherence can be monitored as a function of time.
This approach indicates to what extent the business sector classifications are
visible in market prices, which in turn enables us to gauge the extent of
group-behaviour exhibited by stocks belonging to a given business sector.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
An Outlook on Correlations in Stock Prices
We present an outlook of the studies on correlations in the price timeseries
of stocks, discussing the construction and applications of "asset tree". The
topic discussed here should illustrate how the complex economic system
(financial market) enrichens the list of existing dynamical systems that
physicists have been studying for long.Comment: 6 pages, RevTeX format. To appear in the Conference Proceedings of
ECONOPHYS-KOLKATA II: International Workshop on Econophysics of Stock Markets
and Minority Games", February 14-17, 2006, SINP, Kolkata, as a book chapter
in Eds. A. Chatterjee and B.K. Chakrabarti, Econophysics of Stock and other
Markets, (Springer-Verlag (Italia), Milan, 2006
Spectral and network methods in the analysis of correlation matrices of stock returns
Correlation matrices inferred from stock return time series contain
information on the behaviour of the market, especially on clusters of highly
correlating stocks. Here we study a subset of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
traded stocks and compare three different methods of analysis: i) spectral
analysis, i.e. investigation of the eigenvalue-eigenvector pairs of the
correlation matrix, ii) asset trees, obtained by constructing the maximal
spanning tree of the correlation matrix, and iii) asset graphs, which are
networks in which the strongest correlations are depicted as edges. We
illustrate and discuss the localisation of the most significant modes of
fluctuation, i.e. eigenvectors corresponding to the largest eigenvalues, on the
asset trees and graphs.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Increasing market efficiency: Evolution of cross-correlations of stock returns
We analyse the temporal changes in the cross correlations of returns on the
New York Stock Exchange. We show that lead-lag relationships between daily
returns of stocks vanished in less than twenty years. We have found that even
for high frequency data the asymmetry of time dependent cross-correlation
functions has a decreasing tendency, the position of their peaks are shifted
towards the origin while these peaks become sharper and higher, resulting in a
diminution of the Epps effect. All these findings indicate that the market
becomes increasingly efficient.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted to Physica
Communities in Networks
We survey some of the concepts, methods, and applications of community
detection, which has become an increasingly important area of network science.
To help ease newcomers into the field, we provide a guide to available
methodology and open problems, and discuss why scientists from diverse
backgrounds are interested in these problems. As a running theme, we emphasize
the connections of community detection to problems in statistical physics and
computational optimization.Comment: survey/review article on community structure in networks; published
version is available at
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~porterm/papers/comnotices.pd
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