Shakeouts and Market Crashes

Alessandro Barbarino () and Boyan Jovanovic ()

No 10556, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Stock-market crashes tend to follow run-ups in prices. These episodes look like bubbles that gradually inflate and then suddenly burst. We show that such bubbles can form in a Zeira-Rob type of model in which demand size is uncertain. Two conditions are sufficient for this to happen: A declining hazard rate in the prior distribution over market size and a positively sloped supply of capital to the industry. For the period 1971-2001 we fit the model to the Telecom sector.

JEL-codes: G0 L0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-06
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Published as Alessandro Barbarino & Boyan Jovanovic, 2007. "Shakeouts And Market Crashes," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 48(2), pages 385-420, 05.

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