Deflationary bubbles

Buiter, Willem H. and Sibert, Anne C. (2004) Deflationary bubbles. NBER Working Paper (10642). NBER, London, UK.

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Abstract

In an attempt to clean up an unruly literature, we specify the necessary and sufficient conditions for household optimality in a model where money is the only financial asset and provide the relevant proofs. We use our results to analyse when deflationary bubbles can and cannot exist. Our findings are in contrast to the results in several prominent contributions to the literature. We argue for particular specifications of the no-Ponzi- game restrictions on the household’s and government’s intertemporal budget constraints in a model with money and bonds. Using the restriction on the household we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for household optimality. The resulting equilibrium terminal conditions are then used to demonstrate that the existence of bonds does not affect when deflationary bubbles can and cannot occur. This result differs from that in other recent works.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL:	http://www.nber.org/~wbuiter/
Additional Information:	Published 2004 © Willem Buiter & Anne Sibert. LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (<http://eprints.lse.ac.uk>) of the LSE Research Online website.
Divisions:	European Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2006
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 19:55
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/844

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