Stock Market Bubbles and Unemployment

46 Pages Posted: 10 Apr 2012

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Jianjun Miao

Boston University - Department of Economics

Pengfei Wang

Peking University HSBC Business School

Lifang Xu

Shanghai National Accounting Institute

Date Written: April 8, 2012

Abstract

This paper introduces endogenous credit constraints in a search model of unemployment. These constraints generate multiple equilibria supported by self-fulfilling beliefs. A stock market bubble exists through a positive feedback loop mechanism. The collapse of the bubble tightens the credit constraints, causing firms to reduce investment and hirings. Unemployed workers are hard to find jobs generating high and persistent unemployment.

Keywords: stock market bubbles, unemployment, self-fulfilling beliefs, credit constraints, multiple equilibria, search and matching

JEL Classification: E24, E44, J64

Suggested Citation

Miao, Jianjun and Wang, Pengfei and Xu, Lifang, Stock Market Bubbles and Unemployment (April 8, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2036594 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2036594

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Pengfei Wang

Peking University HSBC Business School ( email )

Lifang Xu

Shanghai National Accounting Institute ( email )

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Shanghai, Shanghai
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