Title of article
Ups and downs of economics and econophysics — Facebook forecast
Author/Authors
Gajic، نويسنده , , Nenad and Budinski-Petkovic، نويسنده , , Ljuba، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2013
Pages
7
From page
208
To page
214
Abstract
What is econophysics and its relationship with economics? What is the state of economics after the global economic crisis, and is there a future for the paradigm of market equilibrium, with imaginary perfect competition and rational agents? Can the next paradigm of economics adopt important assumptions derived from econophysics models: that markets are chaotic systems, striving to extremes as bubbles and crashes show, with psychologically motivated, statistically predictable individual behaviors? Is the future of econophysics, as predicted here, to disappear and become a part of economics? A good test of the current state of econophysics and its methods is the valuation of Facebook immediately after the initial public offering — this forecast indicates that Facebook is highly overvalued, and its IPO valuation of 104 billion dollars is mostly the new financial bubble based on the expectations of unlimited growth, although it’s easy to prove that Facebook is close to the upper limit of its users.
Keywords
economy , Forecasting , scenario , Stock , statistics , VALUATION
Journal title
Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Serial Year
2013
Journal title
Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Record number
1736397
Link To Document