A New Test for Speculative Bubbles Based on Return Variance Decompositions

Tom Engsted and Carsten Tanggaard ()
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Carsten Tanggaard: Department of Finance, Aarhus School of Business, Postal: Fuglesangs Allé 4, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark, http://www.asb.dk/EOK/FIN/STAFF/CAT_FORM.HTM

No 01-9, Finance Working Papers from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Business Studies

Abstract: We suggest a new test for speculative stock market bubbles that has several advantages compared to earlier bubble tests. The test makes use of the fact that the variance of excess return innovations and the variance of (dividend news minus interest rate news minus excess returm news) will be equal if there is no bubble, and differ if there is a bubble. A VAR-model is used to estimate the variance decomposition, and the test is computed using bootstrap simulation. On US and UK data over the period 1919-1999, the test does not reject the no-buble hypothesis.

Keywords: Speculative bubbles; Return variance decomposition; Vector-autoregression; Bootstrap simulation; US and UK stoch markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2001-09-21
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