introduced in the first volume to a more technical level. Where volume I provided an introduction to the mathematics of bubbles …Chapter1 Asset price dynamics and stochastic processes -- Chapter2 Stylized facts of financial markets and bubbles … -- Chapter3 Introduction to contagions and bubbles -- Chapter4 Rational Social Learning -- Chapter5 Bubbles -- Chapter6 …

Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and … attempted to study and interpret bubbles through the prisms of rational expectations, efficient markets, and equilibrium … that explains how and why bubbles (and crashes) evolve and can also be defined, measured, and compared. This book develops …

is presented that helps explain why this is the case for traditional currency crises, but less so for asset bubbles. The …1. Overview: A Framework for Investing During Currency Crises and Asset Bubbles -- 2. Bretton Woods’ Collapse Alters …

Asset bubbles and contagion have had a profound effect on the financial markets after the financial and sovereign debt …

The Nature of Manias, Bubbles and Crashes: Introduction -- Value Trading vs. Momentum Trading -- The Rise of Manias and … Bubbles -- Stages in the Boom-Bubble-Bust Sequence -- Fueling the Boom - Role of the Media -- Bubbles, Wealth and Inflation … -- A Short History of Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: The New World -- Florida Land Boom of the 1920s -- The Stock Market and …

focusing in particular on the role of financial market imperfections for corporate capital structure and investment decisions …