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We explore the implications of asset price volatility for the management of monetary policy. We show that it is desirable for central banks to focus on underlying inflationary pressures. Asset prices become relevant only to the extent they may signal potential inflationary or deflationary...
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This paper presents evidence on attitude changes among investors in the US stock market. Two basic attitudes are explored: bubble expectations and investor confidence. Semiannual time-series indicators of these attitudes are presented for US stock market institutional investors based on...
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This paper examines the global macro-dynamics of an OLG model with capital and land with rational expectations. Through the interactions between capital accumulation and land prices, the economy experiences phase transitions, endogenously moving back and forth from situations with unique and...
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document two ways the market valuation of innovation and its economic impact become disconnected during bubbles. Specifically … firms will succeed that reconciles both the facts, unlike existing models of bubbles. Optimal innovation policy during … bubbles must account for the disconnect …
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forecast errors, along with possible directional misprediction by the forward premium. The implications of bubbles for tests of … forward-rate predictive efficiency are discussed next. It is argued that the existence of bubbles is extremely difficult (if … between spot and forward exchange rates, it seems unlikely that there bubbles have been an important factor. Finally, the …
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estimated in two ways. One may test for speculative bubbles, or fads, by testing whether the two estimates are the same. When … the test is applied to some annual U.S. stock market data, the data usually reject the null hypothesis of no bubbles. The …
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This paper analyzes the possible inception of rational inflationary bubbles under the assumption that the empirically … relevant environment precludes the existence of rational deflationary bubbles. The analysis shows that if a rational … bubbles also apply to rational exchange-rate bubbles …
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bubbles in stock prices in a model in which stockholders have …rules out the existence of negative rational bubbles. The …
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Several recent studies have attributed a large part of asset price volatility to self-fulfilling expectations. Such an explanation is unattractive to many since it allows allocations that need bear no particular relation to those implied by the economist's standard kit of
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speculative bubbles. This study examines the sense in which speculative bubbles could in theory lead to excess volatility, hut it … demonstrates that some of the variance hounds evidence reported to date precludes bubbles as a reason why asset prices might …, to an unwary researcher, to contain bubbles …
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