Metastable Financial Markets
亚稳态金融市场
Metastability is a phenomenon observed in stochastic systems which stay in a false-equilibrium within a region of its state space until the occurrence of a sequence of rare events that leads to an abrupt transition to a different region. This paper presents financial markets as metastable systems and shows that, under this assumption, financial time series evolve as hidden Markov models. In special, we propose a theory that outlines an explicit causal relation between a…