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Intrinsic bubbles and asset price volatility (*)

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  • Bernhard Eckwert

    (Department of Economics, University of Chemnitz, D-09107 Chemnitz, GERMANY)

  • Burkhard Drees

    (International Monetary Fund, European I Department, Room 9-104, Washington, DC 20431, USA)

Abstract

Under what conditions is the price of a bubbly asset more (less) volatile than the asset's market fundamental? The answer depends on agents' attitudes towards risk. If higher current consumption makes agents more (less) risk averse in the future, then the bubbly asset price fluctuates less (more) than the fundamental. This result shows that the interaction between intrinsic bubbles and asset fundamentals critically depends on a feature of the utility function that does not appear in standard models with time-separable utility.

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  • Bernhard Eckwert & Burkhard Drees, 1997. "Intrinsic bubbles and asset price volatility (*)," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 9(3), pages 499-510.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:9:y:1997:i:3:p:499-510
    Note: Received: December 2, 1994; revised version December 18, 1995
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    1. Eckwert, Bernhard, 1993. "Equilibrium term structure relations of risky assets in incomplete markets," Discussion Papers, Series II 214, University of Konstanz, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 178 "Internationalization of the Economy".
    2. Drees, Burkhard & Eckwert, Bernhard, 2000. "Leverage and the price volatility of equity shares in equilibrium," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 40(2), pages 155-167.
    3. Eckwert, Bernhard, 1996. "Equilibrium term structure relations of risky assets in incomplete markets," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 327-346.
    4. Drees, Burkhard & Eckwert, Bernhard, 2000. "Price volatility and risk with non-separability of preferences," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 21-34, January.

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