Shakeouts and Market Crashes /

Stock-market crashes tend to follow run-ups in prices. These episodes look like bubbles that gradually inflate and then suddenly burst. We show that such bubbles can form in a Zeira-Rob type of model in which demand size is uncertain. Two conditions are sufficient for this to happen: A declining haz...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Barbarino, Alessandro
Körperschaft:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Weitere Verfasser:
Jovanovic, Boyan
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2004.
Zusammenfassung:
Stock-market crashes tend to follow run-ups in prices. These episodes look like bubbles that gradually inflate and then suddenly burst. We show that such bubbles can form in a Zeira-Rob type of model in which demand size is uncertain. Two conditions are sufficient for this to happen: A declining hazard rate in the prior distribution over market size and a positively sloped supply of capital to the industry. For the period 1971-2001 we fit the model to the Telecom sector.
Umfang:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Anmerkungen:
June 2004.
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