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Beauty contests and irrational exuberance
a neoclassical approach
George-Marios Angeletos, Guido Lorenzoni, Alessandro Pavan
Published
2010
by
National Bureau of Economic Research
in
Cambridge, MA
.
Written in English.
About the Book
"The arrival of new, unfamiliar, investment opportunities is often associated with "exuberant" movements in asset prices and real economic activity. During these episodes of high uncertainty, financial markets look at the real sector for signals about the profitability of the new investment opportunities, and vice versa. In this paper, we study how such information spillovers impact the incentives that agents face when making their real economic decisions. On the positive front, we find that the sensitivity of equilibrium outcomes to noise and to higher-order uncertainty is amplified, exacerbating the disconnect from fundamentals. On the normative front, we find that these effects are symptoms of constrained inefficiency; we then investigate policies that can improve welfare in our model without any informational advantage on the government's part. At the heart of these results is a distortion that induces a conventional neoclassical economy to behave as a Keynesian "beauty contest" and to exhibit fluctuations that may look like "irrational exuberance" to an outside observer"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Edition Notes
Title from PDF file as viewed on 4/13/2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in print.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Series |
NBER working paper series -- working paper 15883, Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15883. |
Classifications
Library of Congress |
HB1 |
The Physical Object
Format |
Electronic resource |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL24472922M |
LC Control Number |
2010655828 |
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