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if there are "bubbles", they may not distort real behaviour if managers base investment decisions on fundamentals. Using … decisions on fundamentals despite stock market bubbles. Three types of collateral evidence reinforce this interpretation. We …
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Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether "overinvestment"...
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Asset price inflation presents central banks with a puzzle. I examine the case of Germany, 1925-7, when the Reichsbank intervened to bring down stock prices, rectify imbalances and curb speculation. Present value relations, comparisons with historical valuation measures and the time-series...
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Our paper uses simulation methods to examine the size and power of regime-switching tests for bubbles. We find that … tests conservative; they understate the significance of the evidence of bubbles. Despite this, the tests display … considerable power to detect bubbles even when using the conservative asymptotic critical values. We also find that the frequency …
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Our paper uses simulation methods to examine the size and power of regime-switching tests for bubbles. We find that … tests conservative; they understate the significance of the evidence of bubbles. Despite this, the tests display … considerable power to detect bubbles even when using the conservative asymptotic critical values. We also find that the frequency …
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Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stockmarket misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether "overinvestment"...
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In May 1927, the German central bank intervened indirectly to reduce lending to equity investors. The crash that followed ended the only stock market boom during Germany’s relative stabilization 1924-28. This paper examines the factors that lead to the intervention as well as its consequences....
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of a wider research entitled “BUBBLES AND INSTABILITY”, which is intended to try and clarify the reasons why the bubbles …, especially financial bubbles, are a current issue and one of the main aspects to be considered within these phenomena. The first … preview of this current document was published in the same collection: Bubbles and Instability: The State of the Art. Working …
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