Evidence of fueling of the 2000 new economy bubble by foreign capital inflow: Implications for the future of the US economy and its stock market

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 332, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 412-440

  Sornette, Didier ^a,b,c   Zhou, Wei Xing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Depression; Dollar depreciation; Foreign capital inflow; New economy; Speculative bubble

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FEEDBACK; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DOLLAR DEPRECIATION; FOREIGN CAPITAL INFLOW; SPECULATIVE BUBBLE;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0346885923     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.10.010     Document Type: Article

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