Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market

© 2016.This paper studies the existence and timing of bubbles in South Africa's stock market. An empirical model of bubble formation is tested against three competing models of asset price returns that rule out the existence of bubbles. The model controls for nonlinearities inherent in asset pr...

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Main Authors: Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Charl Jooste, Mark Wohar
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/23403
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spelling rr-article-94978702016-01-01T00:00:00Z Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market Mehmet Balcilar (6211838) Rangan Gupta (353380) Charl Jooste (7197731) Mark Wohar (1248486) Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified Bubbles Regime switching Collapse Business and Management not elsewhere classified © 2016.This paper studies the existence and timing of bubbles in South Africa's stock market. An empirical model of bubble formation is tested against three competing models of asset price returns that rule out the existence of bubbles. The model controls for nonlinearities inherent in asset price returns by allowing for the existence of multiple regimes. The bubble model fits the data better than the competing models and suggests that the formation and existence of periodically collapsing bubbles are a reality. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/23403 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Periodically_collapsing_bubbles_in_the_South_African_stock_market/9497870 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
institution Loughborough University
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topic Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
Bubbles
Regime switching
Collapse
Business and Management not elsewhere classified
spellingShingle Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
Bubbles
Regime switching
Collapse
Business and Management not elsewhere classified
Mehmet Balcilar
Rangan Gupta
Charl Jooste
Mark Wohar
Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market
description © 2016.This paper studies the existence and timing of bubbles in South Africa's stock market. An empirical model of bubble formation is tested against three competing models of asset price returns that rule out the existence of bubbles. The model controls for nonlinearities inherent in asset price returns by allowing for the existence of multiple regimes. The bubble model fits the data better than the competing models and suggests that the formation and existence of periodically collapsing bubbles are a reality.
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author Mehmet Balcilar
Rangan Gupta
Charl Jooste
Mark Wohar
author_facet Mehmet Balcilar
Rangan Gupta
Charl Jooste
Mark Wohar
author_sort Mehmet Balcilar (6211838)
title Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market
title_short Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market
title_full Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market
title_fullStr Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market
title_full_unstemmed Periodically collapsing bubbles in the South African stock market
title_sort periodically collapsing bubbles in the south african stock market
publishDate 2016
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/23403
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