Conference jointly organized with the CEPR and the Foundation Banque de France. The Program Committee was composed of Fernando Broner (CREI, UPF and University of Maryland), Ricardo Caballero (MIT), and Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF).

The conference brought together some of the best world researchers working on asset price bubbles. A broad range of issues related to the origins and effects of asset price bubbles were discussed during the conference. The program was organized in five sections: (1) bubbles, investment and productivity growth; (2) private information and bubbles; (3) the US stock market boom of the 90s; (4) money, credit and bubbles; and (5) research on bubbles, what do we know? what next?