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Major bubble episodes are rare events. In this paper, we examine what factors might cause some asset price bubbles to …
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What determines risk-bearing capacity and the amount of leverage in financial markets? Using unique archival data on collateralized lending, we show that personal experience can affect individual risk-taking and aggregate leverage. When an investor syndicate speculating in Amsterdam in 1772 went...
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Building on the notion that bubbles are transient self-fulfilling prophecies created by positive feedback mechanisms …
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and that started to burst in June 2015. The analysis is based on (i) the economic theory of rational expectation bubbles …
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Using a semi-supervised topic model on 7,000,000 New York Times articles spanning 160 years, we test whether topics of media discourse predict future stock and bond market returns to test rational and behavioral hypotheses about market valuation of disaster risk. Focusing on media discourse...
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This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets … and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes. In the experiment … "Underpriced Transactions" are developed, making the book an important step towards the research goal of preventing bubbles and …
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