Bubbles and Contagion in Financial Markets, Volume 2

Eva R. Porras (Madrid, Spain) is a financial and business consultant, providing financial expertise to numerous multinational businesses. She is currently serving as Head Consultant for Business Valuation SL in Spain; Habitat Property Partners in Budapest, and is the Director of the International Programs in the Business School of the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja in Spain. Doctor Porras has over three decades of experience working in financial institutions and corporations, including for CBS/Fox and Citibank. She has held a distinguished academic career, and was Academic Dean of the Central European University Business School in Budapest, Hungary, and previously, Director of Master Programs in Finance at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.

Chapter1 Asset price dynamics and stochastic processes.- Chapter2 Stylized facts of financial markets and bubbles.- Chapter3 Introduction to contagions and bubbles.- Chapter4 Rational Social Learning.- Chapter5 Bubbles.- Chapter6 Fundamental versus contagion variables to explain returns.-