Stocks as Money: Convenience Yield and the Tech-Stock Bubble

John Cochrane

No 8987, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: What caused the rise and fall of tech stocks? I argue that a mechanism much like the transactions demand for money drove many stock prices above the 'fundamental value' they would have had in a frictionless market. I start with the Palm/3Com microcosm and then look at tech stocks in general. High prices are associated with high volume, high volatility, low supply of shares, wide dispersion of opinion, and restrictions on long-term short selling. I review competing theories, and only the convenience yield view makes all these connections.

JEL-codes: G1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-06
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Published as Hunter, William C., George G. Kaufman, and Michael Pomerleano (eds.) Asset price bubbles: The implications for monetary, regulatory, and international policies. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2003.
Published as John H. Cochrane, 2005. "Money as stock," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol 52(3), pages 501-528.

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