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Speculative Behaviour, Regime-Switching and Stock Market Crashes

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Van Norden, S.
Schaller, H.

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This paper uses regime-switching econometrics to study stock market crashes and to explore the ability to two very different economic explanations to account for historical crashes.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: STOCK MARKET REGRESSION ANALYSIS

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