The paper is concerned with time-consistency problems caused by monetary policy in an open economy. The temptation to generate surprise inflation is shown to depend positively on the amounts of nominal debt issued by the government or issued by individuals. Private debt matters, because...

We present a finite period general equilibrium model of an exchange economy with asymmetric information. We say that a rational expectations equilibrium exhibits an expected bubble if the price of an asset in one period is higher than any agent's marginal valuation of holding the asset to...