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Enrico Scalas

Bio: Enrico Scalas is an academic researcher from University of Sussex. The author has contributed to research in topics: Random walk & Monte Carlo method. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 258 publications receiving 7615 citations. Previous affiliations of Enrico Scalas include University of Eastern Piedmont & University of Mainz.


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15 Sep 2016
TL;DR: A survey of numerical methods to solve Fractional Variational Equations can be found in this paper, with a focus on CCTRW. Generalized Stirling Numbers of First and Second Kind in the framework of fractional Calculus.
Abstract: Survey of Numerical Methods to Solve Ordinary and Partial Fractional Differential Equations Specific and Efficient Methods to Solve Ordinary and Partial Fractional Differential Equations Fractional Variational Principles Continuous-Time Random Walks (CTRWs) Applications to Finance and Economics Generalized Stirling Numbers of First and Second Kind in the Framework of Fractional Calculus.

1,534 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a rather general phenomenological theory of tick-by-tick dynamics in financial markets, which fully takes into account the non-Markovian and non-local character of financial time series.
Abstract: In this paper we present a rather general phenomenological theory of tick-by-tick dynamics in financial markets Many well-known aspects, such as the Levy scaling form, follow as particular cases of the theory The theory fully takes into account the non-Markovian and non-local character of financial time series Predictions on the long-time behaviour of the waiting-time probability density are presented Finally, a general scaling form is given, based on the solution of the fractional diffusion equation

798 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors complement the theory of tick-by-tick dynamics of financial markets based on a continuous-time random walk (CTRW) model, and point out its consistency with the behaviour observed in the waiting-time distribution for BUND future prices traded at LIFFE, London.
Abstract: We complement the theory of tick-by-tick dynamics of financial markets based on a continuous-time random walk (CTRW) model recently proposed by Scalas et al [4], and we point out its consistency with the behaviour observed in the waiting-time distribution for BUND future prices traded at LIFFE, London.

482 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the statistical properties of General Electric stock prices, traded at NYSE, in October 1999, are critically revised in the framework of theoretical predictions based on a continuous-time random walk model.
Abstract: In financial markets, not only prices and returns can be considered as random variables, but also the waiting time between two transactions varies randomly. In the following, we analyse the statistical properties of General Electric stock prices, traded at NYSE, in October 1999. These properties are critically revised in the framework of theoretical predictions based on a continuous-time random walk model.

478 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a simplified version of the well-scaled transition of CTRW to the diffusive or hydrodynamic limit is presented, and applications of CTRWs to the ruin theory of insurance companies, to growth and inequality processes and to the dynamics of prices in financial markets are outlined and briefly discussed.
Abstract: This paper reviews some applications of continuous time random walks (CTRWs) to Finance and Economics. It is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the connection between CTRWs and anomalous diffusion. In particular, a simplified version of the well-scaled transition of CTRWs to the diffusive or hydrodynamic limit is presented. In the second part, applications of CTRWs to the ruin theory of insurance companies, to growth and inequality processes and to the dynamics of prices in financial markets are outlined and briefly discussed.

260 citations


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01 Apr 1988-Nature
TL;DR: In this paper, a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) is presented.
Abstract: Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

9,929 citations

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TL;DR: Convergence of Probability Measures as mentioned in this paper is a well-known convergence of probability measures. But it does not consider the relationship between probability measures and the probability distribution of probabilities.
Abstract: Convergence of Probability Measures. By P. Billingsley. Chichester, Sussex, Wiley, 1968. xii, 253 p. 9 1/4“. 117s.

5,689 citations

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TL;DR: Van Kampen as mentioned in this paper provides an extensive graduate-level introduction which is clear, cautious, interesting and readable, and could be expected to become an essential part of the library of every physical scientist concerned with problems involving fluctuations and stochastic processes.
Abstract: N G van Kampen 1981 Amsterdam: North-Holland xiv + 419 pp price Dfl 180 This is a book which, at a lower price, could be expected to become an essential part of the library of every physical scientist concerned with problems involving fluctuations and stochastic processes, as well as those who just enjoy a beautifully written book. It provides an extensive graduate-level introduction which is clear, cautious, interesting and readable.

3,647 citations

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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Weakconvergence methods in metric spaces were studied in this article, with applications sufficient to show their power and utility, and the results of the first three chapters are used in Chapter 4 to derive a variety of limit theorems for dependent sequences of random variables.
Abstract: The author's preface gives an outline: "This book is about weakconvergence methods in metric spaces, with applications sufficient to show their power and utility. The Introduction motivates the definitions and indicates how the theory will yield solutions to problems arising outside it. Chapter 1 sets out the basic general theorems, which are then specialized in Chapter 2 to the space C[0, l ] of continuous functions on the unit interval and in Chapter 3 to the space D [0, 1 ] of functions with discontinuities of the first kind. The results of the first three chapters are used in Chapter 4 to derive a variety of limit theorems for dependent sequences of random variables. " The book develops and expands on Donsker's 1951 and 1952 papers on the invariance principle and empirical distributions. The basic random variables remain real-valued although, of course, measures on C[0, l ] and D[0, l ] are vitally used. Within this framework, there are various possibilities for a different and apparently better treatment of the material. More of the general theory of weak convergence of probabilities on separable metric spaces would be useful. Metrizability of the convergence is not brought up until late in the Appendix. The close relation of the Prokhorov metric and a metric for convergence in probability is (hence) not mentioned (see V. Strassen, Ann. Math. Statist. 36 (1965), 423-439; the reviewer, ibid. 39 (1968), 1563-1572). This relation would illuminate and organize such results as Theorems 4.1, 4.2 and 4.4 which give isolated, ad hoc connections between weak convergence of measures and nearness in probability. In the middle of p. 16, it should be noted that C*(S) consists of signed measures which need only be finitely additive if 5 is not compact. On p. 239, where the author twice speaks of separable subsets having nonmeasurable cardinal, he means "discrete" rather than "separable." Theorem 1.4 is Ulam's theorem that a Borel probability on a complete separable metric space is tight. Theorem 1 of Appendix 3 weakens completeness to topological completeness. After mentioning that probabilities on the rationals are tight, the author says it is an

3,554 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss existence, uniqueness, and structural stability of solutions of nonlinear differential equations of fractional order, and investigate the dependence of the solution on the order of the differential equation and on the initial condition.

3,047 citations