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He admits that this research is at an early all airline stocks rise at the same speed. We have the industry. They don’t publish, because if
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stage and the models are actually still quite days when all stocks crash in price, but rarely what they are doing is successful they don’t
small in terms of participants and securities are there days when they all rise and when they want other people copying it, and if it’s not
compared to a major fi nancial trading system. do it is not in proportion to their profi ts. then they want to forget it.’
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But interest is growing and when the markets ‘We are getting some interest in our research Maringer is hoping that he can build
recover from the latest troubles he expects to from central banks which want to understand relationships with the Swiss fi nancial
fi nd many banks beating a path to his door. more of the macroeconomic consequences and institutions and international organisations
He adds: ‘What we have not quite the way that things are changing. I get phone based in the country. For example the
understood is how things correlate; traditional calls every now and then from hedge funds and Bank for International Settlements HQ is
linear correlations don’t work, because we don’t people from banks, but at the moment people a short walk from his offi ce. He is hoping
have a normal distribution. We don’t have a from the industry do not really know what to do to inspire not just computer scientists, but
correlation that is constant, because things with these methods. Economists often believe also mathematicians looking for new and
change over time and sometimes things are their work will have a dramatic effect on the interesting problems to work on.
strongly correlated and sometimes they are not. industry, but in fact it’s usually many years He says: ‘Our approach does not circumvent
But we do know that correlation is stronger for before new ideas become accepted and widely or avoid mathematics, it creates a need for new
negative events and that it is not symmetrical. used, then people fl ock to their offi ce door. mathematics that you would not see if you only
For example, when oil prices rise, airline stocks ‘Having said that it is very diffi cult to did pen and paper work. The mathematicians
go down, but when the oil price falls again, not fi nd out offi cially what people are doing in and the computer scientists in economics
have traditionally been a bit suspicious of
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