Asset Bubbles [electronic resource].
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TextSeries: IMF Working PapersPublication details: Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (60 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781498304153
- 149830415X
- 332.10681
- HG1615.25
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Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; Figures; Figure 1. Worldwide Financial Assets and Institutional Assets; Figure 2. Bank Assets vs. Investment Firm Assets under Management; II. The 'Clean vs. Lean' Debate: A Survey; Tables; Table 1. Dimensions of the Traditional 'Clean vs. Lean' Debate; III. Theories of (In)Efficient Markets and Speculative Bubbles; A. Bubbles and the (In)Efficiency of Markets -- A Review; B. Competing Models of Bubble Formation and Persistence; Table 2. Stylized Summary of Asset Pricing/Bubble Models; Figure 3. Benchmark Decomposition of Hedge Fund Returns.
Figure 4. Subjective vs. Objective Expected ReturnsIV. Policy Implications; Table 3. Mapping Policy Responses to Bubble Models; Figure 5. Relative 10-year Annualized Outperformance of Fundamental-based Indices; V. Concluding Remarks and Future Research.
In distilling a vast literature spanning the rational- irrational divide, this paper offers reflections on why asset bubbles continue to threaten economic stability despite financial markets becoming more informationally-efficient, more complete, and more heavily influenced by sophisticated (i.e. presumably rational) institutional investors. Candidate explanations for bubble persistence-such as limits to learning, frictional limits to arbitrage, and behavioral errors-seem unsatisfactory as they are inconsistent with the aforementioned trends impacting global capital markets. In lieu of the sho.
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