Highlights

external pageProperty Report: market development analysis and forecast

30 January 2013

Where do real estate bubbles exist in Switzerland and how will the market develop? An analysis carried out by ETH (Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks) and comparis.ch. The study is based on a mathematical model by Professor Didier Sornette (LPPL model). (More information...) 

Interviews and Comments related to Bubbles, Crashes and Predictions

Download"Ich will spielen" (PDF, 487 KB)Interview with Didier Sornette in Die Zeit, Nov 5, 2009. See also further discussions here.

external pageAre We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble?
By Lysa Zyga, July 7, 2008 external page(http://www.physorg.com/)

DownloadComment: Are economic bubbles so bad? (PDF, 287 KB)
Sumit Paul-Choudhury, from New Scientist Print Edition, 21 June 2008

DownloadMaybe Economic Bubbles Aren't So Bad After All (PDF, 152 KB)
Posted by:Eric Ames, Wednesday, June 25, 2008

DownloadRising cost of oil due to Speculation (PDF, 113 KB)
Jon Cartwright, Physicsworld, June 24, 2008

DownloadUncovering the dynamics of bubbles (PDF, 99 KB) 
The Financial Times, FTfm-FUND MANAGEMENT, November 19, 2007

Recent Papers

Financial Bubbles, Real Estate bubbles, Derivative Bubbles, and the Financial and Economic Crisis
Didier Sornette and Ryan Woodard (2009), to appear in the Proceedings of APFA7 (Applications of Physics in Financial Analysis). 

external pageThe 2006-2008 Oil Bubble and Beyond
D. Sornette, R. Woodard and W.-X. Zhou, Physica A (2008)

external pageAnalysis of the real estate market in Las Vegas: Bubble, seasonal patterns, and prediction of the CSW indexes
W.-X. Zhou and D. Sornette, Physica A 387, 243-260 (2008)

external pageA case study of speculative financial bubbles in the South African stock market 2003-2006
W.-X. Zhou and D. Sornette, (2007)

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