It is shown that a natural self-averaging phenomenon can transform the initially (on a microscopic level) lognormal distribution into bi-lognormal one. Comparison with Hong Kong stock market (Hang Seng index) is used to show that this mechanism is working for different time lags and, therefore,...

This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...