nep-fmk New Economics Papers
on Financial Markets
Issue of 2025–03–24
four papers chosen by
Kwang Soo Cheong, Johns Hopkins University


  1. What are Asset Price Bubbles? A Survey on Definitions of Financial Bubbles By Michael Heinrich Baumann; Anja Janischewski
  2. Multimodal Stock Price Prediction By Furkan Karada\c{s}; Bahaeddin Eravc{\i}; Ahmet Murat \"Ozbayo\u{g}lu
  3. Stock Price Prediction Using a Hybrid LSTM-GNN Model: Integrating Time-Series and Graph-Based Analysis By Meet Satishbhai Sonani; Atta Badii; Armin Moin
  4. ChatGPT and Deepseek: Can They Predict the Stock Market and Macroeconomy? By Jian Chen; Guohao Tang; Guofu Zhou; Wu Zhu

  1. By: Michael Heinrich Baumann; Anja Janischewski
    Abstract: Financial bubbles and crashes have repeatedly caused economic turmoil notably but not only during the 2008 financial crisis. However, both in the popular press as well as scientific publications, the meaning of bubble is sometimes unspecified. Due to the multitude of bubble definitions, we conduct a systematic review with the following questions: What definitions of asset price bubbles exist in the literature? Which definitions are used in which disciplines and how frequently? We develop a system of definition categories and categorize a total of 122 papers from eleven research areas. Our results show that although one definition is indeed prevalent in the literature, the overall definition landscape is not uniform. Next to the mostly used definition as deviation from a present value of expected future cash flows, we identify several other definitions, which rely on price properties or other specifications of a fundamental value. This research contributes by shedding light on the possible variations in which bubbles are defined and operationalized.
    Date: 2025–02
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2502.10101
  2. By: Furkan Karada\c{s}; Bahaeddin Eravc{\i}; Ahmet Murat \"Ozbayo\u{g}lu
    Abstract: In an era where financial markets are heavily influenced by many static and dynamic factors, it has become increasingly critical to carefully integrate diverse data sources with machine learning for accurate stock price prediction. This paper explores a multimodal machine learning approach for stock price prediction by combining data from diverse sources, including traditional financial metrics, tweets, and news articles. We capture real-time market dynamics and investor mood through sentiment analysis on these textual data using both ChatGPT-4o and FinBERT models. We look at how these integrated data streams augment predictions made with a standard Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM model) to illustrate the extent of performance gains. Our study's results indicate that incorporating the mentioned data sources considerably increases the forecast effectiveness of the reference model by up to 5%. We also provide insights into the individual and combined predictive capacities of these modalities, highlighting the substantial impact of incorporating sentiment analysis from tweets and news articles. This research offers a systematic and effective framework for applying multimodal data analytics techniques in financial time series forecasting that provides a new view for investors to leverage data for decision-making.
    Date: 2025–01
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2502.05186
  3. By: Meet Satishbhai Sonani; Atta Badii; Armin Moin
    Abstract: This paper presents a novel hybrid model that integrates long-short-term memory (LSTM) networks and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to significantly enhance the accuracy of stock market predictions. The LSTM component adeptly captures temporal patterns in stock price data, effectively modeling the time series dynamics of financial markets. Concurrently, the GNN component leverages Pearson correlation and association analysis to model inter-stock relational data, capturing complex nonlinear polyadic dependencies influencing stock prices. The model is trained and evaluated using an expanding window validation approach, enabling continuous learning from increasing amounts of data and adaptation to evolving market conditions. Extensive experiments conducted on historical stock data demonstrate that our hybrid LSTM-GNN model achieves a mean square error (MSE) of 0.00144, representing a substantial reduction of 10.6% compared to the MSE of the standalone LSTM model of 0.00161. Furthermore, the hybrid model outperforms traditional and advanced benchmarks, including linear regression, convolutional neural networks (CNN), and dense networks. These compelling results underscore the significant potential of combining temporal and relational data through a hybrid approach, offering a powerful tool for real-time trading and financial analysis.
    Date: 2025–02
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2502.15813
  4. By: Jian Chen; Guohao Tang; Guofu Zhou; Wu Zhu
    Abstract: We study whether ChatGPT and DeepSeek can extract information from the Wall Street Journal to predict the stock market and the macroeconomy. We find that ChatGPT has predictive power. DeepSeek underperforms ChatGPT, which is trained more extensively in English. Other large language models also underperform. Consistent with financial theories, the predictability is driven by investors' underreaction to positive news, especially during periods of economic downturn and high information uncertainty. Negative news correlates with returns but lacks predictive value. At present, ChatGPT appears to be the only model capable of capturing economic news that links to the market risk premium.
    Date: 2025–02
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2502.10008

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