Duty called and central banks, in response to the global crisis, have risen to a level of preeminence that is presumably unprecedented in modern economic history. The Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) not only had to go with the flow but also led to some heated debates in the realm of market...

We propose a model of periodically collapsing bubbles which extends the Van Norden (1996) model, and nests it, by considering a non-linear specification for the bubble size in the survival regime, and the endogenous determination of the level of the fundamental value of the stochastic process....