Economic Growth with Bubbles

Jaume Ventura and Martín, Alberto
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alberto Martin

No 7770, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: We develop a stylized model of economic growth with bubbles. In this model, financial frictions lead to equilibrium dispersion in the rates of return to investment. During bubbly episodes, relatively inefficient investors demand bubbles while relatively efficient investors supply them. Because of this, bubbly episodes channel resources towards efficient investment raising the growth rates of capital and output. The model also illustrates that the existence of bubbly episodes requires some investment to be dynamically inefficient: otherwise, there would be no demand for bubbles. This dynamic inefficiency, however, might be generated by an expansionary episode itself.

Keywords: Asset bubbles; Dynamic inefficiency; Economic growth; Financial frictions; Pyramid schemes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E44 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04
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