Asset Price Bubbles and Stock Market Interlinkages

WFIC Working Paper No. 02-22

Posted: 3 Sep 2002

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Franklin Allen

Imperial College London

Douglas M. Gale

New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics

Date Written: April 2002

Abstract

The effect of stock market interlinkages on asset price bubbles are considered. Bubbles can occur when there is an agency problem between banks and the people they lend money to because the banks cannot observe how the funds are invested. This causes a risk shifting problem and asset prices are bid up above their fundamental. The greater is uncertainty about asset returns or about the amount of aggregate credit the greater is the bubble. Stock market interlinkages can moderate or exacerbate asset price bubbles.

Suggested Citation

Allen, Franklin and Gale, Douglas M., Asset Price Bubbles and Stock Market Interlinkages (April 2002). WFIC Working Paper No. 02-22, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=313649

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