Crossover in the Cont–Bouchaud percolation model for market fluctuations

Monte Carlo simulations of the Cont–Bouchaud herding model for stock market traders show power-law distributions for short times and exponential truncation for longer time intervals, if they are made at the percolation threshold in two to seven dimensions.

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