@techreport{NBERw16750, title = "Bubbly Liquidity", author = "Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "16750", year = "2011", month = "January", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w16750", abstract = {This paper analyzes the possibility and the consequences of rational bubbles in a dy- namic economy where financially constrained firms demand and supply liquidity. Bub- bles are more likely to emerge, the scarcer the supply of outside liquidity and the more limited the pledgeability of corporate income; they crowd investment in (out) when liquidity is abundant (scarce). We analyze extensions with firm heterogeneity and sto- chastic bubbles.}, }