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Bubbles as payoffs at infinity

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  • Christian Gilles
  • Stephen F. LeRoy

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We define rational bubbles to be securities with payoffs occurring in the infinitely distant future and investigate the behavior of bubble values. We extend our analysis to a setting of uncertainty. In an infinite-horizon arbitrage-free model of asset prices, we interpret the money market account as the value of a particular bubble; a similar interpretation holds for other assets related to the state-price deflator and to payoffs on bonds maturing in the distant future. We present three applications of this characterization of bubbles.

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  • Christian Gilles & Stephen F. LeRoy, 1996. "Bubbles as payoffs at infinity," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 96-9, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
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    • E30 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General

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