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351-0567-00L 2 Credits MSC D-MTEC

Mechanism of price fluctuations and financial crisis

Lecturers & Examiners: Prof. Dr. Taisei Kaizoji
VVZ CR n/a

Last Updated: 2026-02-05 15:14:41

Objective

This course seeks better understanding of why financial markets boom and crash, and attempts to devises efficient methods of forecasting market crashes.

Content

The lecture summarizes and to interprets recent development in the economics on bubble and subsequent crash, including irrational exuberance and heterogeneity of opinion, etc. Furthermore, It introduces an econophysics approach to financial crises. Econophysics is a new interdisciplinary research field that incorporates insights from physics, such as (nonequilibrium) statistical mechanics and complex system into economics and finance, and attempts to model economy and financial market from a physics point of view. We will study mechanisms of bursting of bubbles and attempt to forecast bursting of bubbles from the perspective of econophysics, and deepen our comprehension of and financial market “anomalies” and financial crises that are caused by interaction and complexities of investors' behavior.

Resources

Lecture Notes

Lecture note: Handouts will be available.

Literature

Why Stock Markets Crash by D. Sornette (2003) Princeton University Press. Additional literature recommendations will be distributed during the lecture.

General Information

Language
English
Levels
MSC

Examination

Type
graded semester performance
Grade: Final Essay.The essay should be exceed 10 pages (12 pt) in length (including figures and tables.)

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
lecture Mechanism of price fluctuations and financial crisis
  • Wed 10:15-12:00 (LFW C 4)
2 h weekly

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