LPPLS Bubble Indicators over Two Centuries of the S&P 500 Index

32 Pages Posted: 5 Feb 2016

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Qunzhi Zhang

ETH Zürich

Didier Sornette

Risks-X, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech); Swiss Finance Institute

Mehmet Balcilar

University of New Haven

Rangan Gupta

University of Pretoria - Department of Economics

Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

Economic Research Forum (ERF); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Hakan Yetkiner

Izmir University of Economics

Date Written: February 2, 2016

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present novel tests for the early causal diagnostic of positive and negative bubbles in the S&P 500 index and the detection of End-of-Bubble signals with their corresponding confidence levels. We use monthly S&P 500 data covering the period from August 1791 to August 2014. This study is the first work in the literature showing the possibility to develop reliable ex-ante diagnostics of the frequent regime shifts over two centuries of data. We show that the DS LPPLS (log-periodic power law singularity) approach successfully diagnoses positive and negative bubbles, constructs efficient End-of-Bubble signals for all of the well-documented bubbles, and obtains for the first time new statistical evidence of bubbles for some other events. We also compare the DS LPPLS method to the exponential curve fitting and the generalized sup ADF test approaches and find that DS LPPLS system is more accurate in identifying well-known bubble events, with significantly smaller numbers of false negatives and false positives.

Keywords: S&P 500, LPPL method, stock market bubble, forecast, bubble indicators

JEL Classification: J16, O47, C32

Suggested Citation

Zhang, Qunzhi and Sornette, Didier and Balcilar, Mehmet and Gupta, Rangan and Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin and Yetkiner, I. Hakan, LPPLS Bubble Indicators over Two Centuries of the S&P 500 Index (February 2, 2016). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 16-05, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2727755 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2727755

Qunzhi Zhang

ETH Zürich ( email )

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Didier Sornette (Contact Author)

Risks-X, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) ( email )

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Mehmet Balcilar

University of New Haven ( email )

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Rangan Gupta

University of Pretoria - Department of Economics ( email )

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Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

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I. Hakan Yetkiner

Izmir University of Economics ( email )

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Turkey

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