Journal of Economic Perspectives
ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)
Symposium on Bubbles
Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 13–18)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
The papers in this symposium represent the divergent views of economists on an important issue: the extent to which prices of assets represent "fundamental" values. While the papers in the symposium present different formal definitions of what a bubble is, the basic intuition is straightforward: if the reason that the price is high today is only because investors believe that the selling price will be high tomorrow—when "fundamental" factors do not seem to justify such a price—then a bubble exists.Citation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. 1990. "Symposium on Bubbles." Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (2): 13–18. DOI: 10.1257/jep.4.2.13JEL Classification
- 313 Capital Markets--General