Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92824 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 772
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
Employing a new accounting data set we apply the framework of McGrattan and Prescott (2005) to the Japanese economy in order to assess if Japanese stocks were priced correctly in the period after 1980. We find that the stock market tended to undervalue the fundamental value of installed capital. We also provide a new interpretation of Japanese stock market phenomena during the 'bubble period' and suggest that from a theoretical perspective, stock prices during the 'bubble period' were correctly valued. Changes in the reproducible cost of intangible capital play an important role in our new interpretation.
Subjects: 
intangible capital
stock price bubbles
book information
JEL: 
E01
E22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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