Recurrent Bubbles and Economic Growth

Pablo Guerron, Tomohiro Hirano and Ryo Jinnai ()

No 2012, Discussion Papers from Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM)

Abstract: We study a regime-switching recurrent bubble model with endogenous growth. The economy experiences both bubbly and bubbleless regimes recurrently. Infinitely-lived households expect future bubbles, which crowds out investment and reduces economic growth. Because realized bubbles crowd in investment, their overall impact on economic growth and welfare crucially depends on both the level of financial development and the frequency of bubbles. We examine U.S. economic growth performance through the lens of our model, finding evidence of recurrent bubbles. Furthermore, counterfactual simulations suggest that 1) the IT and housing bubbles together lifted the U.S. GDP by almost 2 percentage points permanently; and 2) the U.S. economy could have grown faster if people had believed that asset bubbles were impossible to arise.

Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2020-04
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