We investigate how stochastic asset price dynamics with herding and financial constraints explains the presence of a <italic>period of financial distress</italic> (PFD) following the peak and preceding the crash of a bubble [Charles P. Kindleberger, <italic>Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crisis</italic>, 4th...

We investigate the effects of memory on the stability of evolutionary selection dynamics based on a multinomial logit model in a simple asset pricing model with heterogeneous beliefs. Whether memory is stabilizing or destabilizing depends in general on three key factors: (1) whether or not the...