Financial bubble theories emphasize the importance of behavioral mechanisms cen- tered around investor beliefs, which can be potentially gleaned from prevailing nar- ratives, that reflect investors’ psychological states and link them to economic events. By summarizing market narratives into...

"This comprehensive historical account tells the story of 200 years of financial panics in America, from 1819 up to the current economic downturn of 2020, showing how and why so many financial crises have occurred in the United States and offering solutions to avoiding these sorts of crises...

With public debt soaring across the world, a growing concern is whether current debt levels are a harbinger of fiscal crises, thereby restricting the policy space in a downturn. The empirical evidence to date is however inconclusive, and the true cost of debt may be overstated if interest rates...