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Power Laws in Financial Markets: Fat Tails, Scaling Behavior, and the Mathematics of Market Risk

by Danny Munrow , Vincent Alaric
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798259332003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 364
  • Original Price: GBP 23.65
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 486 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Finance / General

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Financial markets often behave in ways that ordinary models struggle to explain. Large price moves, volatility clustering, unstable correlations, and extreme market events all suggest that risk is not always distributed neatly or predictably. Power Laws in Financial Markets examines the mathematical structures behind these patterns and shows how fat tails, scaling behavior, and nonlinear market dynamics shape modern financial risk.

Written for quantitatively minded readers, traders, analysts, researchers, and finance students, this book introduces the core ideas behind power-law behavior and their relevance to market data. It explores how scaling relationships appear in returns, volatility, drawdowns, liquidity, and systemic risk, while also explaining why traditional assumptions can break down during periods of market stress.

Inside, readers will find a practical and conceptual guide to topics such as fat-tailed distributions, extreme market moves, scaling exponents, statistical instability, risk concentration, volatility structure, and the limitations of Gaussian models. Rather than promising prediction or certainty, the book focuses on understanding how financial systems generate disproportionate outcomes and why rare events matter so much in risk management.

Power Laws in Financial Markets is a clear, technical introduction to one of the most important mathematical ideas in modern finance: markets are not always normal, risk is not always linear, and the largest events can dominate the entire system.

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