Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

2-2011

Abstract

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. 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 mid-1995, prior to the famous remark in December 1996 by Alan Greenspan about irrational exuberance in the financial market, thereby giving the remark empirical content.

Discipline

Econometrics | Finance | Finance and Financial Management | International Economics

Research Areas

Econometrics

Publication

International Economic Review

Volume

52

Issue

1

First Page

201

Last Page

226

ISSN

0020-6598

Identifier

10.1111/j.1468-2354.2010.00625.x

Publisher

Wiley

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2010.00625.x

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