A continuum percolation model for stock price fluctuation as a Lévy process

• DOI: 10.1007/s11424-014-2273-z
• Publication Date: 2014-04-04T22:24:47Z
• Authors: Ning Wang; Ximin Rong; Guanghua Dong
• Keywords: Percolation (cognitive psychology); Complex system

This paper concerns with two reasons for stock price fluctuation, the instinctive stochastic fluctuation and the fluctuation caused by the spread of information. They are constructed by compound Poisson process and continuum percolation model separately. Combining the two models, the authors get a Levy process for the price fluctuation that can explain the fat-tail phenomenon in stock market. The fat-tails are also presented in numerical simulations.