Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68649 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 28
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
The two key questions which motivate our work are: do bubbles exist (in the sense that stock market prices do not always correspond to the present value of expected future profitability) and, if bubbles exist, do they have an effect on business fixed investment? The case of Japan is particularly interesting because of the dramatic movements in the Japanese stock market and the wide perception that these were associated with a bubble. We use a variety of techniques to analyze these questions. Fist, we examine financing and investment patterns to gauge firms' reactions to the 1980s stock market run-up. Second, we test subsets of the orthogonality conditions associated with the empirical first-order conditions for fixed investment. Third, we use a linear projection to decompose stock market prices into fundamental and bubble components, allowing us to carry out parametric estimates of the effect of the bubble component on fixed investment. The data strongly suggest that there was a bubble that had an economically important statistically significant effect on business fixed investment in Japan.
Subjects: 
investment
financial market
bubbles
JEL: 
E44
E22
G10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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