We investigate how stochastic asset price dynamics with herding and financial constraints explains the presence of a <italic>period of financial distress</italic> (PFD) following the peak and preceding the crash of a bubble [Charles P. Kindleberger, <italic>Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crisis</italic>, 4th...

Agents forming adaptive expectations generally make systematic mistakes. This characterization has fostered the rejection of adaptive expectations in macroeconomics. Experimental evidence, however, shows that in complex environments human subjects frequently rely on adaptive heuristics –...

Assessing systemic risk and defining macro-prudential policies aiming at reducing economic system vulnerability have been at the center of the economic debate of the last years. Credit networks play a crucial role in diffusing and amplifying local shocks, following the network-based financial...

Assessing systemic risk and defining macro-prudential policies aiming at reducing economic system vulnerability have been at the center of the economic debate of the last years. Credit networks play a crucial role in diffusing and amplifying local shocks, following the network-based financial...