The 2006-2008 oil bubble: Evidence of speculation, and prediction

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1571-1576

  Sornette, Didier ^a,b   Woodard, Ryan ^a   Zhou, Wei Xing ^c,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c School of Business   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Commodities; Econophysics; Oil bubble; Prediction; Speculation

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; PHYSICS;

COMMODITIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECONOPHYSICSS; ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION; EXPONENTIAL BEHAVIORS; INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY; OIL BUBBLE; SPECULATION;

CRUDE OIL PRICE;

EID: 59449104598     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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