Efficient Multi-Change Point Analysis to Decode Economic Crisis Information from the S&P500 Mean Market Correlation

Identifying macroeconomic events that are responsible for dramatic changes of economy is of particular relevance to understanding the overall economic dynamics. We introduce an open-source available efficient Python implementation of a Bayesian multi-trend change point analysis, which solves signifi...

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Main Authors: Martin Heßler, Tobias Wand, Oliver Kamps
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/9/1265
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description Identifying macroeconomic events that are responsible for dramatic changes of economy is of particular relevance to understanding the overall economic dynamics. We introduce an open-source available efficient Python implementation of a Bayesian multi-trend change point analysis, which solves significant memory and computing time limitations to extract crisis information from a correlation metric. Therefore, we focus on the recently investigated <i>S&P500</i> mean market correlation in a period of roughly 20 years that includes the dot-com bubble, the global financial crisis, and the Euro crisis. The analysis is performed two-fold: first, in retrospect on the whole dataset and second, in an online adaptive manner in pre-crisis segments. The online sensitivity horizon is roughly determined to be 80 up to 100 trading days after a crisis onset. A detailed comparison to global economic events supports the interpretation of the mean market correlation as an informative macroeconomic measure by a rather good agreement of change point distributions and major crisis events. Furthermore, the results hint at the importance of the U.S. housing bubble as a trigger of the global financial crisis, provide new evidence for the general reasoning of locally (meta)stable economic states, and could work as a comparative impact rating of specific economic events.
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spelling doaj.art-7afc3ca881ba408fb47695b0b31c381f2023-11-19T10:35:13ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002023-08-01259126510.3390/e25091265Efficient Multi-Change Point Analysis to Decode Economic Crisis Information from the S&P500 Mean Market CorrelationMartin Heßler0Tobias Wand1Oliver Kamps2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149 Münster, GermanyInstitute for Theoretical Physics, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149 Münster, GermanyCenter for Nonlinear Science, University of Münster, Corrensstraße 2, 48149 Münster, GermanyIdentifying macroeconomic events that are responsible for dramatic changes of economy is of particular relevance to understanding the overall economic dynamics. We introduce an open-source available efficient Python implementation of a Bayesian multi-trend change point analysis, which solves significant memory and computing time limitations to extract crisis information from a correlation metric. Therefore, we focus on the recently investigated <i>S&P500</i> mean market correlation in a period of roughly 20 years that includes the dot-com bubble, the global financial crisis, and the Euro crisis. The analysis is performed two-fold: first, in retrospect on the whole dataset and second, in an online adaptive manner in pre-crisis segments. The online sensitivity horizon is roughly determined to be 80 up to 100 trading days after a crisis onset. A detailed comparison to global economic events supports the interpretation of the mean market correlation as an informative macroeconomic measure by a rather good agreement of change point distributions and major crisis events. Furthermore, the results hint at the importance of the U.S. housing bubble as a trigger of the global financial crisis, provide new evidence for the general reasoning of locally (meta)stable economic states, and could work as a comparative impact rating of specific economic events.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/9/1265Bayesian multi-change point analysislinear trend segment fitcomputationally efficient open-source python implementation<i>S&P500</i>mean market correlationmarket mode
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linear trend segment fit
computationally efficient open-source python implementation
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mean market correlation
market mode
title Efficient Multi-Change Point Analysis to Decode Economic Crisis Information from the S&P500 Mean Market Correlation
title_full Efficient Multi-Change Point Analysis to Decode Economic Crisis Information from the S&P500 Mean Market Correlation
title_fullStr Efficient Multi-Change Point Analysis to Decode Economic Crisis Information from the S&P500 Mean Market Correlation
title_full_unstemmed Efficient Multi-Change Point Analysis to Decode Economic Crisis Information from the S&P500 Mean Market Correlation
title_short Efficient Multi-Change Point Analysis to Decode Economic Crisis Information from the S&P500 Mean Market Correlation
title_sort efficient multi change point analysis to decode economic crisis information from the s p500 mean market correlation
topic Bayesian multi-change point analysis
linear trend segment fit
computationally efficient open-source python implementation
<i>S&P500</i>
mean market correlation
market mode
url https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/9/1265
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