Power law and evolutionary trends in stock markets
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We model the distribution of daily stock trading volume using the power law and document a new phenomenon. The power law exponent systematically increases with time suggesting that trading is becoming increasingly concentrated in a subset of stocks. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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