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Financial Crisis Observatory
Reports
FCO Blog
The FCO blog discusses how the system approach allows one to develop diagnostic methods and predictions of crises.
The Financial Crisis Observatory (FCO) is a scientific platform aimed at testing and quantifying rigorously, in a systematic way and on a large scale the hypothesis that financial markets exhibit a degree of inefficiency and a potential for predictability, especially during regimes when bubbles develop.
Financial Bubble Experiment
Silvano Cincotti, Didier Sornette, Philip Treleaven, Stefano Battiston,
Guido Caldarelli and Cars Hommes and Alan Kirman, An economic and financial exploratory, European
Journal of Physics: Special Topics 214, 361-400 (2012)
5 December 2011 - FBE Blog
We have launched the next phase of our FBE. Instead of publishing a paper with forecasts every six months, we will make forecasts as we find them, be it daily, weekly or monthly. Each new FBE asset will be posted individually on our new blog at http://fcofbe.blogspot.com/ .
The first one is already posted. As in the first three papers, we initially will only publish the digital fingerprings of the analysis. Once the forecast window has passed, we will post the original analysis. As always, the timestamp issue is transparent and verifiable. Please visit this latest research vehicle.
3 May 2011 -Third FBE Results and Analysis
Here we present the analysis of the third set of FBE forecasts:
The Financial Bubble Experiment: Advanced Diagnostics and Forecasts of Bubble Terminations,
Volume III (http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2882)
Main FBE Report
Original assets report (run checksum on this file)
1 November 2010 - Second FBE Results and Analysis
Here we present the analysis of the second set of FBE forecasts:
Didier Sornette, Ryan Woodard, Maxim Fedorovsky, Stefan Reimann, Hilary
Woodard, Wei-Xing Zhou (The Financial Crisis Observatory), The Financial
Bubble Experiment: Advanced Diagnostics and Forecasts of Bubble
Terminations Volume II - Master Document (http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5675)
Main FBE Report
Original assets report (run checksum on this file)
(Please note that the version before 10:21 am 4 November 2010 was incorrect. The correct version is now above.)
3 May, 2010 - Initial FBE Results and Analysis
Here we present the analysis of the four initial FBE forecasts:
Main FBE Report
IBOVESPA (Brazil index) - fbe_001.pdf (2 Nov. 2009)
Merrill Lynch EMU Corporates Non-Financial Index - fbe_002.pdf (2 Nov. 2009)
Gold spot price in USD - fbe_003.pdf (2 Nov. 2009)
Cotton future in USD - fbe_004.pdf (22 Dec. 2009)
Media coverage of the Financial Bubble Experiment
1 Nov, 2009
We introduce a new experiment involving the forecasts of the end of bubbles in financial time series using techniques developed over the past 15 years. The majority of forecasts that we have made in the past have been published after we found them to be successful. That is, we have predicted certain bubbles to end and then have written about the post-mortem analysis. In this new experiment, we propose a new method of delivering our forecasts where the results are revealed only after the predicted event has passed but where the original date when we produced these same results can be publicly, digitally authenticated. More information can be found in the first delivery of the Financial Bubble Experiment.
The Financial Crisis: How Much Longer and Deeper?
In this section we look at important papers, links and discussions and add our own comments.
Highlighted Papers
D. Sornette, Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises, in
press in the International Journal of Terraspace Science and
Engineering (2009), (http://arXiv.org/abs/0907.4290)
Featured on the FT blog "Dragon-king of the outlier events"
Didier Sornette and Ryan Woodard, Financial Bubbles, Real Estate bubbles, Derivative Bubbles, and the Financial and Economic Crisis (2009), (http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0220), to appear in the Proceedings of APFA7 (Applications of Physics in Financial Analysis). This conference series, organized by Misako Takayasu and Tsutomu Watanabe, focuses on the analysis of large-scale Economic data, (http://www.thic-apfa7.com/en/htm/index.html)
Past analysis and forecasts
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CHINESE EQUITY (10 July 2009) Amid the current financial crisis, there has been one equity index beating all others: the Shanghai Composite. Our analysis of this main Chinese equity index shows clear signatures of a bubble build up and we go on to predict its most likely crash date: July 17-27, 2009 (20%/80% quantile confidence interval). See full analysis and results in this paper. |
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CDS (19 February 2009) Our analysis has been performed on data kindly provided by Amjed Younis of Fortis on 19 February 2009. It consists of 3 data sets: credit default swaps (CDS); German bond futures prices; and spread evolution of several key euro zone sovereigns. The date range of the data is between 4 January 2006 and 18 February 2009. Our log-periodic power law (LPPL) analysis shows that credit default swaps appear bubbly, with a projected crash window of March-May, depending on the index used. German bond futures and European sovereign spreads do not appear bubbly. (See report for more information.) |
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OIL (27 May 2008) Oil prices exhibited a record rise followed by a spectacular crash in 2008. The peak of $145.29 per barrel was set on 3 July 2008 and a recent low of $40.81 was scraped on 5 December, a level not seen since 2004. On 27 May 2008, we addressed the question of whether oil prices were exhibiting a bubble-like dynamics, which may be symptomatic of speculative behavior, using our techniques based on statistical physics and complexity theory. More thorough post-crash analysis of our 27 May 2008 experiment predicts a peak within an 80% confidence interval between 17 May 2008 and 14 July 2008. The actual observed `crash', where prices began a long downward trend, began on the last day of this period. (See paper for more information). |
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US REAL ESTATE (3 June 2005) We analyzed the quarterly average sale prices of new houses sold in the USA as a whole, in the northeast, midwest, south, and west of the USA, in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia of the USA, to determine whether they have grown faster-than-exponential which we take as the diagnostic of a bubble. We find that 22 states (mostly Northeast and West) exhibit clear-cut signatures of a fast growing bubble. From the analysis of the S&P 500 Home Index, we conclude that the turning point of the bubble will probably occur around mid-2006. (See paper for more information) |
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US AND UK REAL ESTATE (March 2003)
In the aftermath of the burst of the “new economy” bubble in 2000, the Federal Reserve aggressively reduced short-term rates yields in less than two years from 6.5 to 1.25 % in an attempt to coax forth a stronger recovery of the US economy. But, there is growing apprehension that this is creating a new bubble in real estate, as strong housing demand is fuelled by historically low mortgage rates. Using the theory of critical phenomena resulting from positive feedbacks in markets, we confirm this view point for the US but find that mayhem may be in store for the UK: we unearth the unmistakable signatures (log-periodicity and power law super-exponential acceleration) of a strong unsustainable bubble there, which could burst around the end of the year 2003. (See paper for more information) |
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