Sam Astill
Real-time monitoring for explosive financial bubbles
Astill, Sam; Harvey, David I.; Leybourne, Stephen J.; Sollis, Robert; Taylor, A.M. Robert
Authors
DAVID HARVEY dave.harvey@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Econometrics
STEVE LEYBOURNE steve.leybourne@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Econometrics
Robert Sollis
A.M. Robert Taylor
Abstract
We propose new methods for the real-time detection of explosive bubbles in financial time series. Most extant methods are constructed for a fixed sample of data and, as such, are only appropriate when applied as one-shot tests. Sequential application of these, declaring the presence of a bubble as soon as one of these statistics exceeds the one-shot critical value, would yield a detection procedure with an unknown false positive rate likely to be far in excess of the nominal level. Our approach sequentially applies the one-shot tests of Astill et al. (2017), comparing sub-sample statistics calculated in real time during the monitoring period with corresponding sub-sample statistics obtained from a prior training period. We propose two procedures: one based on comparing the real time monitoring period statistics with the maximum statistic over the training period, and another which compares the number of consecutive exceedances of a threshold value in the monitoring and training periods, the threshold value obtained from the training period. Both allow the practitioner to determine the false positive rate for any given monitoring horizon, or to ensure this rate does not exceed a specified level by setting a maximum monitoring horizon. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that the finite sample false positive rates lie close to their theoretical counterparts, even in the presence of time-varying volatility and serial correlation in the shocks. The procedures are shown to perform well in the presence of a bubble in the monitoring period, offering the possibility of rapid detection of an emerging bubble in a real time setting. An empirical application to monthly stock market index data is considered.
Citation
Astill, S., Harvey, D. I., Leybourne, S. J., Sollis, R., & Taylor, A. R. (2018). Real-time monitoring for explosive financial bubbles. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 39(6), (863-891). doi:10.1111/jtsa.12409. ISSN 0143-9782
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 30, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 19, 2018 |
Publication Date | Nov 30, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Jun 6, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 20, 2019 |
Journal | Journal of Time Series Analysis |
Print ISSN | 0143-9782 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-9892 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 863-891 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsa.12409 |
Keywords | Rational bubble; Explosive autoregression; Real-time monitoring procedure; Subsampling |
Public URL | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/52265 |
Publisher URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jtsa.12409 |
Copyright Statement | Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/end_user_agreement.pdf |
Additional Information | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Astill, S. , Harvey, D. I., Leybourne, S. J., Sollis, R. and Robert Taylor, A. M. (2018), Real‐Time Monitoring for Explosive Financial Bubbles. J. Time Ser. Anal., 39: 863-891. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jtsa.12409. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
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