Major bubble episodes are rare events. In this paper, we examine what factors might cause some asset price bubbles to … bubble. The results of the experiment suggest that the company's attempt to exchange its shares for government debt was the … on the size of the bubble. Limited contract enforcement, on the other hand, does not appear to have contributed …

Introduction -- The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy -- ‘Mr Morice is said to appear at the head’: The Bubble …’: Incorporation, the Jamaica Mines Company, and the Bubble Act of 1720 -- Pamphlet Poetry and the South Sea Bubble -- Decoding the … Bubble: Popular Magic, Financial Deception, and Eliza Haywood’s Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia …

global crash of 1987, the Japanese stock market bubble of the 1980s/90s, and the international dot.com boom of the 1990s. The …

's Securities Market -- Chapter Three: Origins of the South Sea Company -- Chapter Four: John Law and the Mississippi Bubble … global crash of 1987, the Japanese stock market bubble of the 1980s/90s, and the international dot.com boom of the 1990s. The … First Crash throws light on the current debate about investor rationality by re-examining the story of the South Sea Bubble …