Brazilian stock market bubble in the 2010s.

ABSTRACT: Brazilian stock markets underwent a period of remarkable exuberance between early 2016 and March 2020, only to crash with the global turmoil related to health worries and oil prices. The Ibovespa index tripled its market value between a low point in January 2016 and its maximum in January 2020-by March 12, half those gains had been erased. Narratives about a bubble in Brazilian stocks before the global crash and its subsequent burst are plentiful in specialized media. In this paper, we explore this narrative from within the framework of strict local martingale financial bubbles. A key result in this literature states some financial asset price displays a bubble only if it follows a strict local martingale under the equivalent risk-neutral measure. A diffusion process is a strict local mart

SUBMITTER: Laurini MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7605144 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature