Bubbles have become ubiquitous. This ubiquity has stimulated research over the past three decades into bubbles in history. In this article, we provide a systematic overview of research into historical bubbles. Our analysis reveals that there is no coherent approach to the study of bubbles and...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part One The Beginning -- Chapter One The House on Dover Road, 1898-1919 -- Chapter Two Lessons Learned, 1919-1925 -- Chapter Three Mackubin, Goodrich & Co., 1925-1927 -- Chapter Four The Great Bull Market and the...

In Market Madness, Dr. Blake Clayton, a Wall Street stock analyst and former Oxford researcher, draws on a century's worth of statistical data to offer a revolutionary new look the history of oil and future of energy. The culmination of a multi-year study, he shows how generational fears about...

We study the impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu on U.S. stock prices. We use the death rate to control for the impact of the global pandemic and war news reported in the New York Times to capture the positive effects of the end of World War I on stock prices. Using a new weekly hand collected NYSE...