Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Economics, Faculty of Management ,University of Tehran

2 FRM, Finance Ph.D. student at University of Tehran, Tehran

Abstract

Stock market crashes are important, both for investors and academics. Since Catastrophe Theory is a strong tool for explaining nonlinear phenomena, in this paper we apply Catastrophe theory and fit stochastic Cusp Catastrophe model to Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) data. With the help of annual growth rate of liquidity and stock trading volume as control variables, we show that the Cusp catastrophe model explains the crashes of the TSE index in 2004 and 2008, much better than non-linear logistic model. Our results are confirmed after removing trend from Tehran Stock Exchange price index.

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