2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.01.006
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From hero to zero: Evidence of performance reversal and speculative bubbles in German renewable energy stocks

Abstract: Stocks of German renewable energy companies have commonly been regarded as lucrative investment opportunities. Their innovative line of business initially seemed to promise considerable future earnings. As shown by two powerful bubble tests, the positive sentiment for renewable energy stocks even led to explosive price behavior in the mid-2000s. However, intense sector competition and the economic downturn following the global financial crisis erased profit margins to a large extent. As a result, the former fa… Show more

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“…But when the duration of the second bubble exceeds the first, the PWY strategy can detect the second bubble but only with some delay. Third, the PSY strategy and (under additional conditions) a sequential implementation of the PWY strategy (to each individual bubble in turn) do provide consistent detectors for both 2 The present article therefore subsumes the results contained in the unpublished working paper of Phillips and Yu (2009) which is referenced in PWY and which first analyzed the asymptotic properties of the PWY procedure.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 58%
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“…But when the duration of the second bubble exceeds the first, the PWY strategy can detect the second bubble but only with some delay. Third, the PSY strategy and (under additional conditions) a sequential implementation of the PWY strategy (to each individual bubble in turn) do provide consistent detectors for both 2 The present article therefore subsumes the results contained in the unpublished working paper of Phillips and Yu (2009) which is referenced in PWY and which first analyzed the asymptotic properties of the PWY procedure.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 58%
“…The present article provides a rigorous limit theory showing formal test consistency of the PWY bubble detection procedure and the consistency of its associated dating algorithm under certain conditions, notably the existence of a single bubble period in the data. 2 This limit theory is part of a much larger formal investigation undertaken here that examines the asymptotic properties of bubble detection algorithms when there may be multiple episodes of exuberance in the data, under which the PWY procedure does not perform nearly as well. As argued in the authors' companion paper (Phillips, Shi, and Yu, 2015a, hereafter PSY), data over long historical periods often include several crises involving financial exuberance and collapse.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using Return on Assets (ROA) as a key performance metric, the attention of the management is drawn on the assets required to run the business. Some economists [23] consider that ROA is a better metric of analyzing financial performance than income statement profitability measured by return on sales. ROA explicitly takes into account the assets used to support management activities.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other types of analysis, such as the Bohl et al study [23], could not be replicated for the Romanian market since there are a few companies operating in the renewable energy sector that are listed on the stock exchange. An overview of the sustainability and financial performance of the companies in the energy sector in Romania [24] has been recently undertaken, so the authors of this paper decided to take a different approach by investigating the economic performance of the companies in this sector.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(), Homm and Breitung (), Gutierrez (), Bohl et al. (), Etienne et al. (2013), Greenaway‐McGrevy and Phillips (forthcoming), and Jiang et al (), among others.…”
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confidence: 99%