We extend the rational speculative bubbles literature to the frontier emerging stock markets. For this purpose, this … show strong evidence of rational speculative bubbles in the frontier emerging stock markets …

-stamp bubbles in the emerging and frontier African stock markets. We find periods of explosive behavior in the price–dividend ratio … in several markets which is indicative of irrational exuberance. We find strong evidence of multiple speculative bubbles …

This paper is the first to utilize a direct test for periodic, partially collapsing speculative bubbles in US REIT … bubbles, most notably in the Mortgage REITs series. There is also visual evidence of a negative bubble in all three series in … bubbles or indeed taking advantage of such bubbles …