Bubble-driven business cycles

Benjamin Larin

No 143, Working Papers from University of Leipzig, Faculty of Economics and Management Science

Abstract: The 2007-2008 financial crisis highlighted that a turmoil in the financial sector including bursting asset price bubbles can cause pronounced and persistent fluctuations in real economic activity. This justifies the consideration of evolving and bursting asset price bubbles as another source of fluctuations in business cycle models. In this paper rational asset price bubbles are incorporated into a life-cycle RBC model as first developed by Ríos-Rull (1996). The calibration of the model to the post-war US economy and the numerical solution show that the model is able to depict plausible bubble-driven business cycles. In particular, the model generates i) a higher and empirically more plausible volatility of consumption at the cost of ii) a lower and empirically less plausible contemporaneous correlation of consumption with output than the life-cycle RBC model without bubbles.

Keywords: Computable General Equilibrium; Bubble; Asset Price; Real Activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 E32 E44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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