, thereby causing rational bubbles to lose their efficiency properties. Moreover, if speculation can be carried out by skilled …We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading … are large, the private gains associated with trading asset bubbles may lead too many workers to become speculators …

This paper examines whether theoretical models of bubbles based on the notion that the price of an asset can deviate … from its fundamental value are useful for understanding phenomena that are often described as bubbles, and which are … trading would emerge. In addition, I show that these models imply that speculative bubbles can be associated with low rather …