It is generally accepted that excessive exuberance or gloom in investor sentiment contributes to booms and crashes in asset prices but, because of its complex interaction with other aspects of the valuation process, these effects are not easy to identify with statistical confidence and this...

The study attempts to assess the influence of investor sentiment onselected sectoral indices returns volatility in the Indian stock market over theperiod from 2015-2019. GARCH, EGARCH, and Bivariate VAR models wereapplied for data analysis after checking unit root issue of the data. Nine...

The main goal of this paper is to introduce a new financial stress indicator, signaling regime transitions from stability to turbulence. This indicator is based on the combination of a wide range of market prices of risk, properly normalized to make them comparable across markets and time...

This paper provides an early warning indicator for bubbles in financial markets. The indicator is based on traditional unit root tests, more precisely on the augmented Dickey-Fuller test and may be used in a repeated manner with rolling samples. The performance of the indicator is tested...

This study augments the neoclassical growth model with a mechanism that creates a novel transmission channel through which financial shocks propagate to the real economy. By affecting agents' ability to finance consumption expenditures, financial frictions create a demand for safe assets that...

This paper introduces a bubbly asset to a standard macroeconomic model with heterogeneous agents and borrowing constraints. In this tractable quantitative framework, I show the possibility of a return-preserving bubble that absorbs savings with no good investment opportunities. Analysis of the...

Asset price bubbles have fascinated economists for decades. In consequence, the literature on bubbles and their detection is abundant, with many researchers taking very opposite positions on the topic, however. This survey gives a structured overview of the two branches of research that have...