TY - JOUR AU - DeLong,J. Bradford AU - Magin,Konstantin TI - A Short Note on the Size of the Dot-Com Bubble JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 12011 PY - 2006 Y2 - February 2006 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12011 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12011.pdf N1 - Author contact info: J. Bradford DeLong Department of Economics 601 Evans Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 Tel: 510/643-4027 Fax: 510/642-6615 E-Mail: delong@econ.berkeley.edu Konstantin Magin AB - A surprisingly large amount of commentary today marks the beginning of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s from either the Netscape Communications initial public offering of 1995 or Alan Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech of 1996. We believe that this is wrong: we see little sign that the aggregate U.S. stock market was in any way in a significant bubble until 1998 or so. ER -