Real-time prediction and post-mortem analysis of the Shanghai 2015 stock market bubble and crash

Autor: Qunzhi Zhang, Guilherme Demos, Didier Sornette, Peter Cauwels, Qun Zhang
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The Journal of Investment Strategies. 4:77-95
ISSN: 2047-1238
Popis: The authors assess the performance of the real-time diagnostic, openly presented to the public on the website of the Financial Crisis Observatory (FCO) at ETH Zurich, of the bubble regime that developed in Chinese stock markets since mid-2014 and that started to burst in June 2015. The analysis is based on (i) the economic theory of rational expectation bubbles, (ii) behavioural mechanisms of imitation and herding of investors and traders and (iii) the mathematical formulation of the Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) that describes the critical approach towards a tipping point in complex systems. The authors document how the real-time predictions were presented in the automated analysis of the FCO, as well as in our monthly FCO Cockpit report of June 2015. A complementary post-mortem analysis on the nature and value of the LPPLS methodology to diagnose the SSEC bubble and its termination is also given.
Databáze: OpenAIRE