The Japanese Asset Price Bubble: Evolvement and Consequences

The Japanese Asset Price Bubble : A „ Heterogeneous ‟ Approach

Learning by Doing: Asset Price Bubble Formation with Heterogeneous Agents

In this paper we study the accruement and decay of asset price bubbles under the assumption that young agents behave boundedly rationally when rst entering the market and then gain more and more experience when growing older, nally reaching a state of perfect rational behavior. We set up an overlapping generations model where agents form their beliefs about the payo of a risky asset by combinin...

Distributional Consequences of Asset Price Inflation in the Euro Area

We study the distributional consequences of housing price, bond price and equity price increases for Euro Area households using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The capital gains from bond price and equity price increases turn out to be concentrated among relatively few households, while the median household strongly benefits from housing price increases. The capit...

Liquidity, Asset Price and Banking

We consider an economy where people have the needs for liquidity because of the unanticipated consumption opportunity, yet banks may not provide su¢ cient liquidity due to imperfect technology in commitment, enforcement and record-keeping. We show a link between the liquidity generated by bank lending, the value of the asset used as collateral and aggregate economic activity. When the record-ke...

Purely Discontinuous Asset Price Processes

This paper presents the case for modeling asset price processes as purely discontinuous processes of ̄nite variation with an in ̄nite arrival rate of jumps that have arrival rates completely monotone in the jump size. The arguments address both the empirical realities of asset returns and the implications of the economic principle of no arbitrage. Two classes of economic models meeting these con...