English

Dissecting the dot-com bubble in the 1990s NASDAQ

General Economics 2022-07-07 v2 Economics

Abstract

In this paper, I revisit Phillips, Wu and Yu's seminal 2011 paper on testing for the dot-com bubble. I apply recent advancements of their methods to individual Nasdaq stocks and use a novel specification for fundamentals. To address a divide in the literature, I generate a detailed sectoral breakdown of the dot-com bubble. I find that it comprised multiple overlapping episodes of exuberance and that there were indeed two starting dates for internet exuberance.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.14130,
  title  = {Dissecting the dot-com bubble in the 1990s NASDAQ},
  author = {Yuchao Fan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.14130},
  year   = {2022}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-24T12:07:13.588Z