Financial Bubbles, Real Estate Bubbles, Derivative Bubbles, and the Financial and Economic Crisis

Financial Bubbles, Real Estate bubbles, Derivative Bubbles, and the Financial and Economic Crisis

The financial crisis of 2008, which started with an initially well-defined epicenter focused on mortgage backed securities (MBS), has been cascading into a global economic recession, whose increasing severity and uncertain duration has led and is continuing to lead to massive losses and damage for billions of people. Heavy central bank interventions and government spending programs have been la...

Speculative Bubbles and Financial Crisis

Why are asset prices so much more volatile and so often detached from their fundamental values? Why does the bursting of …nancial bubbles depress the real economy? This paper addresses these questions by constructing an in…nite-horizon heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model with speculative bubbles. We characterize conditions under which storable goods, regardless of their intrinsic valu...

Banking bubbles and financial crises

This paper develops a tractable macroeconomic model with a banking sector in which banks face endogenous borrowing constraints. There is no uncertainty about economic fundamentals. Banking bubbles can emerge through a positive feedback loop mechanism. Changes in household confidence can cause the bubbles to burst, resulting in a financial crisis. Credit policy can mitigate economic downturns. T...

Bubbles, Banks, and Financial Stability

We construct a model of rational bubbles under credit frictions and show that bubbles held by banks can generate large credit expansions followed by financial crisis. The size of boom-bust is somewhat larger than the case in which savers directly hold bubbles. Thus massive credit exansion during booms can be interpreted as an early warning indicator of possible subsequent crisis.

Bubbles in Real Estate Markets