Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships. Financial economists have for decades attempted to study and interpret bubbles through the prisms...

1. Introduction -- 2. Bubble Stories -- 3. Crash Stories -- 4. Money and Credit Features -- 5. Random Walks -- 6. Rationality Rules -- 7. Behavioral Beats -- 8. Bubble Dynamics -- 9. Behavioral Risk Features -- 10. Estimating and Forecasting -- 11. Financial Asset Bubble Theory.

Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships. Financial economists have for decades attempted to study and interpret bubbles through the prisms...