There are two major streams of literature on the modeling of financial bubbles: the strict local martingale framework and the Johansen-Ledoit-Sornette (JLS) financial bubble model. Based on a class of models that embeds the JLS model and can exhibit strict local martingale behavior, we clarify...

In a numéraire-independent framework, we study a financial market with N assets which are all treated in a symmetric way. We define the fundamental value *S of an asset S as its superreplication price and say that the market has a strong bubble if *S and S deviate from each other. None of these...