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Speculative Bubble
Explore the history of financial speculation, the concepts behind market bubbles, and major historical episodes.
Keystone concepts
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An economic bubble is a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation, being the valuation that the underlying long-term fundamentals justify.
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In finance, a futures contract is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery at a specified time in the future, between parties not yet known to each other.
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In finance, speculation is the purchase of an asset with the hope that that asset will become more valuable in a brief amount of time.
Articles
- The Anatomy of Mania: Tulips, Viruses, and the Birth of Financial Speculation
How a botanical curiosity and a viral infection converged to create the world's first recorded speculative bubble.
Challenges
- Anatomy of a Speculative Bubble
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Relationships around keystone concepts
- Forward curve — related to → Futures contract: standardized version of forward contracts
- Speculation — related to → Information cascade: social mechanism triggering speculative herd behavior
- Speculation — related to → Behavioural finance: field studying the cognitive biases behind speculative decisions
- Speculation — related to → Irrational exuberance: psychological state fueling speculative market bubbles
- Speculation — related to → Charles P. Kindleberger: historian who documented the cyclical nature of speculation
- Speculation — related to → Margin (finance): mechanism enabling high-risk speculative leverage
- Speculation — related to → Greater fool theory: psychological driver of speculative asset bubbles
- Speculation — related to → Efficient-market hypothesis: theoretical framework challenging the premise of profitable speculation