Abstract
Criticizing the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) on the basis of highly volatile asset prices is conceptually wrong as efficiency is about rationality and information, not about stability. Speculative bubbles are compatible with rational valuation, and hence with market efficiency. As rational expectations are auto-referential, multiple solutions are a natural outcome. This paper attributes the prevalent confusion between bubbles and irrationality to the bad reputation of multiple-solution models often considered as underspecified. It argues that multiple solutions rather represent an opportunity to economists by bringing theoretically sound degrees of freedom to empirical implementation. Moreover, the recognition of multiple price dynamics compatible with market efficiency thwarts irrationality-based theories and, as such, is a valuable asset largely underestimated by the profession.
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