Bubbles and Crashes

Bubbles and Crashes
Author: Brent Goldfarb,David A Kirsch
Publsiher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781503607934

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“An interesting take on some factors that facilitate the development and bursting of bubbles in technology industries. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice Financial market bubbles are recurring, often painful, reminders of the costs and benefits of capitalism. While many books have studied financial manias and crises, most fail to compare times of turmoil with times of stability. In Bubbles and Crashes, Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch give us new insights into the causes of speculative booms and busts. They identify a class of assets—major technological innovations—that can, but does not necessarily, produce bubbles. This methodological twist is essential: Only by comparing similar events that sometimes lead to booms and busts can we ascertain the root causes of bubbles. Using a sample of eighty-eight technologies spanning 150 years, Goldfarb and Kirsch find that four factors play a key role in these episodes: the degree of uncertainty surrounding a particular innovation; the attentive presence of novice investors; the opportunity to directly invest in companies that specialize in the technology; and whether or not a technology is a good protagonist in a narrative. Goldfarb and Kirsch consider the implications of their analysis for technology bubbles that may be in the works today, offer tools for investors to identify whether a bubble is happening, and propose policy measures that may mitigate the risks associated with future speculative episodes.

Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes

Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes
Author: Harold L. Vogel
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2021-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783030791827

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Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships. Financial economists have for decades attempted to study and interpret bubbles through the prisms of rational expectations, efficient markets, equilibrium, arbitrage, and capital asset pricing models, but they have not made much if any progress toward a consistent and reliable theory that explains how and why bubbles (and crashes) evolve and are defined, measured, and compared. This book develops a new and different approach that is based on the central notion that bubbles and crashes reflect urgent short-side rationing, which means that, as such extreme conditions unfold, considerations of quantities owned or not owned begin to displace considerations of price.

Boom and Bust

Boom and Bust
Author: William Quinn,John D. Turner
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781108421256

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Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? Boom and Bust reveals why bubbles happen, and why some bubbles have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences, whilst others have actually benefited society.

From Catastrophe to Chaos A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities

From Catastrophe to Chaos  A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities
Author: J. Barkley Rosser
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789401716130

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From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities presents and unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches across a variety of disciplines of thought has constituted a virtual intellectual revolution in recent years. This book reviews the applications of these approaches in various subdisciplines of economics and draws upon past economic thinkers to develop an integrated view of economics as a whole from the perspective of inherent discontinuity.

Origins of the Crash

Origins of the Crash
Author: Roger Lowenstein
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1594200033

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A financial journalist presents an analysis of the stock market and economics of the 1990s, examining the causes of the crisis and discussing the collapse of Enron, the dot-com bubble, and the accounting scandal and Andersen.

Asset Pricing Under Asymmetric Information

Asset Pricing Under Asymmetric Information
Author: Markus Konrad Brunnermeier
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198296983

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The role of information is central to the academic debate on finance. This book provides a detailed, current survey of theoretical research into the effect on stock prices of the distribution of information, comparing and contrasting major models. It examines theoretical models that explain bubbles, technical analysis, and herding behavior. It also provides rational explanations for stock market crashes. Analyzing the implications of asymmetries in information is crucial in this area. This book provides a useful survey for graduate students.

A Bubble that Broke the World

A Bubble that Broke the World
Author: Garet Garrett
Publsiher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1932
Genre: Credit
ISBN: 9781610164832

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"Most of the matter in this book has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post during the last twelve months."--Author's note. June 1, 1932.

The Edge of Chaos

The Edge of Chaos
Author: Bernice Cohen
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1997-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: UCSC:32106014769340

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Historical treatment of significant financial crises.