An understanding of the behaviour of financial assets and the evolution of economies has never been as important as today. This book looks at these complex systems from the perspective of the physicist. So called 'econophysics' and its application to finance has made great strides in recent...

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Random variables and probability distributions; 1.1 Particle descriptions of partial differential equations; 1.2 Random variables and stochastic processes; 1.3 The n-point probability distributions; 1.4 Simple averages and scaling; 1.5 Pair correlations...

The primary goal of the book is to present the ideas and research findings of active researchers such as physicists, economists, mathematicians and financial engineers working in the field of "Econophysics, who have undertaken the task of modeling and analyzing systemic risk, network dynamics...

The principle of maximum entropy has been used to analyze the stability of the resulting process observed during the interaction of a random process with a 1/f spectrum and a deterministic action in lumped and distributed systems of nonlinear stochastic differential equations describing the...