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Stock market crash of 2008: an empirical study of the deviation of share prices from company fundamentals

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  • Taisei Kaizoji
  • Michiko Miyano

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The aim of this study is to investigate quantitatively whether share prices deviated from company fundamentals in the stock market crash of 2008. For this purpose, we use a large database containing the balance sheets and share prices of 7796 worldwide companies for the period 2004–2013. We develop a panel regression model using three financial indicators – dividends per share, cash flow per share and book value per share – as explanatory variables for share price. We then estimate individual company fundamentals for each year by removing the time fixed effects from the two-way fixed effects model, which we identified as the best of the panel regression models.Based on these results, we analyse the market anomaly quantitatively using the divergence rate – the rate of the deviation of share price from a company’s fundamentals. We find that share prices on average were overvalued in the period from 2005 to 2007 and were undervalued significantly in 2008, when the global financial crisis occurred. Share prices were equivalent to the fundamentals on average in the subsequent period. Our empirical results clearly demonstrate that the worldwide stock market fluctuated excessively in the time period before and just after the global financial crisis of 2008.

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  • Taisei Kaizoji & Michiko Miyano, 2019. "Stock market crash of 2008: an empirical study of the deviation of share prices from company fundamentals," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(5), pages 362-369, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:26:y:2019:i:5:p:362-369
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1486004
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    1. Wu, Xu & Wang, Pei-Yu & Wang, Kun, 2023. "The effect of stabilization fund to rescue stock market based on expected return-capita circulation equation," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PB).

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