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Explosive behavior in the 1990s Nasdaq: when did exuberance escalate asset values?

Explosive behavior in the 1990s Nasdaq: when did exuberance escalate asset values?
Explosive behavior in the 1990s Nasdaq: when did exuberance escalate asset values?
A recursive test procedure is suggested that provides a mechanism for testing explosive behavior, date-stamping the origination and collapse of economic exuberance, and providing valid confidence intervals for explosive growth rates. The method involves the recursive implementation of a right-side unit root test and a sup test, both of which are easy to use in practical applications, and some new limit theory for mildly explosive processes. The test procedure is shown to have discriminatory power in detecting periodically collapsing bubbles, thereby overcoming a weakness in earlier applications of unit root tests for economic bubbles. Some asymptotic properties of the Evans (1991) model of periodically collapsing bubbles are analyzed and the paper develops a new model in which bubble duration depends on the strength of the cognitive bias underlying herd behavior in the market. The paper also explores alternative propagating mechanisms for explosive behavior based on economic fundamentals under time varying discount rates. An empirical application to the Nasdaq stock price index in the 1990s provides confirmation of explosiveness and date-stamps the origination of financial exuberance to June 1995, prior to the famous remark in December 1996 by Alan Greenspan about irrational exuberance in financial markets, thereby giving the remark empirical content.
explosive root, irrational exuberance, mildly explosive process, nasdaq bubble, periodically collapsing bubble, sup test, unit root test
0020-6598
201-226
Phillips, Peter C.B.
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Wu, Yangru
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Yu, Jun
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Phillips, Peter C.B.
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Wu, Yangru
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Yu, Jun
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Phillips, Peter C.B., Wu, Yangru and Yu, Jun (2011) Explosive behavior in the 1990s Nasdaq: when did exuberance escalate asset values? International Economic Review, 52 (1), 201-226. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-2354.2010.00625.x).

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A recursive test procedure is suggested that provides a mechanism for testing explosive behavior, date-stamping the origination and collapse of economic exuberance, and providing valid confidence intervals for explosive growth rates. The method involves the recursive implementation of a right-side unit root test and a sup test, both of which are easy to use in practical applications, and some new limit theory for mildly explosive processes. The test procedure is shown to have discriminatory power in detecting periodically collapsing bubbles, thereby overcoming a weakness in earlier applications of unit root tests for economic bubbles. Some asymptotic properties of the Evans (1991) model of periodically collapsing bubbles are analyzed and the paper develops a new model in which bubble duration depends on the strength of the cognitive bias underlying herd behavior in the market. The paper also explores alternative propagating mechanisms for explosive behavior based on economic fundamentals under time varying discount rates. An empirical application to the Nasdaq stock price index in the 1990s provides confirmation of explosiveness and date-stamps the origination of financial exuberance to June 1995, prior to the famous remark in December 1996 by Alan Greenspan about irrational exuberance in financial markets, thereby giving the remark empirical content.

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Published date: 1 February 2011
Keywords: explosive root, irrational exuberance, mildly explosive process, nasdaq bubble, periodically collapsing bubble, sup test, unit root test
Organisations: Economics

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Local EPrints ID: 157279
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/157279
ISSN: 0020-6598
PURE UUID: 1132bffe-37f7-4d25-880a-2283030c82df
ORCID for Peter C.B. Phillips: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2341-0451

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Date deposited: 04 Jun 2010 09:26
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 01:46

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Author: Yangru Wu
Author: Jun Yu

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