Johansen, Anders - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 338 (2004) 1, pp. 135-142
This paper presents an exclusive classification of the largest crashes in Dow Jones industrial average, SP500 and … NASDAQ in the past century. Crashes are objectively defined as the top-rank filtered drawdowns (loss from the last local … historical volatility of the index. It is shown that all crashes can be linked to either an external shock, e.g., outbreak of war …