Real-Time Prediction and Post-Mortem Analysis of the Shanghai 2015 Stock Market Bubble and Crash

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Didier Sornette

Risks-X, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech); Swiss Finance Institute; ETH Zürich - Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC); Tokyo Institute of Technology

Guilherme Demos

ETH Zürich

Qun Zhang

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; ETH Zürich; South China University of Technology

Peter Cauwels

ETH Zürich; Director Quaerens CommV

Vladimir Filimonov

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

Qunzhi Zhang

ETH Zürich

Date Written: August 6, 2015

Abstract

The authors assess the performance of the real-time diagnostic, openly presented to the public on the website of the Financial Crisis Observatory (FCO) at ETH Zurich, of the bubble regime that developed in Chinese stock markets since mid-2014 and that started to burst in June 2015. The analysis is based on (i) the economic theory of rational expectation bubbles, (ii) behavioural mechanisms of imitation and herding of investors and traders and (iii) the mathematical formulation of the Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) that describes the critical approach towards a tipping point in complex systems. The authors document how the real-time predictions were presented in the automated analysis of the FCO, as well as in our monthly FCO Cockpit report of June 2015. A complementary postmortem analysis on the nature and value of the LPPLS methodology to diagnose the SSEC bubble and its termination is also given.

Keywords: Financial bubbles, Crashes, Probabilistic forecast, Johansen-Ledoit-Sornette model, Log-periodic power law singularity (LPPLS), Advanced warning, Chinese bubbles, Financial crisis observatory

JEL Classification: F37, G01, G17

Suggested Citation

Sornette, Didier and Demos, Guilherme and Zhang, Qun and Zhang, Qun and Cauwels, Peter and Filimonov, Vladimir and Zhang, Qunzhi, Real-Time Prediction and Post-Mortem Analysis of the Shanghai 2015 Stock Market Bubble and Crash (August 6, 2015). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 15-31, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2693634 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2693634

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Qun Zhang

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Peter Cauwels

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Vladimir Filimonov

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