The oil drop looks to me like a rather straightforward outcome of the current events. What grand message should we take from this blog post? [more]

Please note that this is a very old announcement (from 2008). For fresher news see our front page. [more]

We contacted some people who have been involved in that. Their experience will be surely discussed here as soon as we get it. [more]

An interesting blog post! I particularly like the iphone-washing machine contrast: would it be possible to make a closer link between the "speed of change/innovation" and profitability? That would be a nice extension of the bounded rationality concept... [more]

For a response see Joe McCauley's article on arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0606002 [more]

Interesting. In addition to your paper in IFRA and a book chapter, what about writing a blog about it? [more]

The first sentence of the paper should have been included in the abstract too: "This paper is to serve as a literature review for a Phd thesis to be carried out...". It's really only a brief review of the available methods and it lacks details. [more]

Frequent refering to "designers of financial cycles" makes the main idea of this paper similar to a conspiracy theory: the designers sell their shares at the highest price, wait for the crash and buy again and the lowest price, effectively taking all the net benefit... Also, besides vague analogies there is nothing to gain from the paper: if provides no verifiable results and even the motivation itself is doubtful... [more]

Vague analogies and badly motivated definitions... The paper is hard to understand and doesn't convey the information about what has been achieved. [more]

The analytical machinery is impressive but in the whole paper there is no study on real data whatsoever. [more]