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We introduce a model of super-exponential financial bubbles with two assets (risky and risk-free), in which …
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) during financial bubbles. The SIN is constructed in two steps. First, we develop a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) of regime …
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We analyze a controlled price formation experiment in the laboratory that shows evidence for bubbles. We calibrate two … models that demonstrate with high statistical significance that these laboratory bubbles have a tendency to grow faster than …
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Recent crises have seen very large spikes in asset price risk without dramatic shifts in fundamentals. We propose an explanation for these risk panics based on self-fulfilling shifts in risk made possible by a negative link between the current asset price and risk about the future asset price....
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Regulators charged with monitoring systemic risk need to focus on sentiment as well as narrowly defined measures of systemic risk. This chapter describes techniques for jointly monitoring the co-evolution of sentiment and systemic risk. To measure systemic risk, we use Marginal Expected...
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By examining data on the gold forward offered rate (GOFO) and lease rates over the period 1996- 2009, we conclude that the convenience yield of gold is better approximated by the lease rate than the interest-adjusted spread of Fama amp; French (1983). Using the latter quantity, we study the...
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There has been a long debate about whether speculators are stabilizing or not. We consider a model where speculators have a stabilizing role in normal times, but may also provoke large risk panics. The very feature that makes arbitrageurs liquidity providers in normal times, namely their...
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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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-price dynamics to diagnose financial bubbles by providing three main innovations. First, we introduce the quantile regression to the …\textsuperscript{TM} and Trust\textsuperscript{TM} indicators that enrich considerably the diagnostic of bubbles. Using extensive synthetic … signals, a detailed analysis of the "S\&P 500 1987" bubble and the application to 16 historical bubbles, we show that the …
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We analyse the consequences of predicting and exploiting financial bubbles in an agent-based model, with a risky and a … their ability to diagnose financial bubbles from the endogenous price history to determine optimal entry and exit trading … inefficiencies and stabilise the market by arbitraging the bubbles. At larger proportions, DR tend to destabilise prices, as their …
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