Asset Price Response to New Information

Asset Price Response to New Information
Author: Guo Ying Luo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461493692

Asset Price Response to New Information examines the effect of two types of psychological biases (namely, conservatism bias and representativeness heuristic) on the asset price reaction to new information. The author constructs various models of a competitive securities market or a security market allowing for strategic interaction among traders to prove rigorously that either conservatism or representativeness is capable of generating both asset price overreaction and underreaction to new information. The results shed some new insights on the phenomena of the asset price overreaction and underreaction to new information. In the literature, very little has been published in this area of behavioral finance. This volume will appeal to graduate-level students and researchers in finance, behavioral finance, and financial engineering.

Framing Effects on Selected Information and Market Behavior - an Experimental Analysis

Framing Effects on Selected Information and Market Behavior - an Experimental Analysis
Author: Erich Kirchler
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN:

The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets on eight markets in a computerized continuous double auction, indicate that (i) objectively irrelevant information influences trading behavior. Moreover, positively and negatively framed information leads to a particular trading pattern. However (ii), a probability variation of the framed information has no influence on trading volume. In addition, the results (iii) confirm the disposition effect. Participants who experience a gain sell their assets more rapidly than participants who experience a loss, and positively framed subjects generally sell their assets later than negatively framed subjects.

Behavioral Finance

Behavioral Finance
Author: Lucy F. Ackert
Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Investments
ISBN: 9780538752862

The book begins by building upon the established, conventional principles of finance that you've have already learned in your principles course. The authors then move into psychological principles of behavioral finance, including heuristics and biases, overconfidence, emotion and social forces. You immediately see how human behavior influences the decisions of individual investors and professional finance practitioners, managers, and markets. You also gain a strong understanding of how social forces impact individuals' choices. The book clearly explains what behavioral finance indicates about observed market outcomes as well as how psychological biases potentially impact the behavior of managers. The book's solid academic approach provides opportunities for you to utilize theory and complete applications in every chapter as you learn the implications of behavioral finance on retirement, pensions, education, debiasing, and client management. The book spends a significant amount of time examining how today's practitioners can use behavioral finance to further their professional success.

Information, Investor Behavior, Equilibrium ,Allocation and Surplus

Information, Investor Behavior, Equilibrium ,Allocation and Surplus
Author: Li-Wei Chen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN:

Interest in the efficiency of markets has led to much empirical testing. An enormous amount of work has been done in the field of finance investigating the efficiency of various financial markets. Downstair market (such as NYSE and TSE) rely on market makers, floor traders, and limit order to provide liquidity on demand. Yet despite the importance of informed trader as a source of liquidity, relatively little is know about how prices in downstairs market are determined under uncertainty and the effects of information leakage facilitated by transaction in the stock market.This article develops a model of the stock market where quantity demanded and prices are determined endogenously to increase our understanding of how information is leaked out. We find that information leakage is related to the precision and value observed of that information.This study finds that privately informed traders able to outperform the market even strong efficient one. This finding tends to refute the strong form of the efficient market hypothesis.Investors are rational ones pursuing their maximum utility. In an economy under certainty, investors can acquire and utilize any information including private and public ones, to estimate the risk, predict the true value of securities, carry on the investment, and thus influence the security price.Once the signal observed and its accuracy were improved, the investors adopt more active trading behavior, thus the quantity demanded for risky assets rise, and lead to the security price increase, as for and investor's utility. Second, we find that both risk adverse coefficient and the liquidity of security market are irrelevant to security price.Perfect information disclosure are not necessarily the key successful factors of the development of security market. The more independent information that investors have, not necessarily result more informative of price.

The Impact of Blog Recommendations on Security Prices and Trading Volumes

The Impact of Blog Recommendations on Security Prices and Trading Volumes
Author: Veljko Fotak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

Previous research and recent statements by the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that e-mail spam and message board posts are often used to manipulate markets in a variation of the classical pump-and-dump scheme, leading to temporary market reactions followed by price reversals. In contrast, I hypothesize that financial blogs spread genuine information leading to permanent market adjustments.I investigate stock recommendations on blogs and find that bloggers tend to write about liquid securities issued by large firms; I also find that bloggers offer short advice consistent with momentum strategies but long advice consistent with contrarian strategies.To test the hypothesis that stock recommendations on blogs impact both prices and trading volumes of the touted securities, I collect recommendations from blogs and analyze returns and trading volumes on the days surrounding publication; I offer evidence to support my hypothesis and I find some evidence of market reaction being stronger for short recommendations. I hypothesize and test that the magnitude of the market reaction depends on the market capitalization of the touted firm, on the size of the blog's audience, on the depth of the analysis of the blog post and on the perceived skill of the blog's author. I find that the market appears to react more strongly to recommendations given by holders of a graduate degree in Finance or Economics; the other hypothesized factors do not have an impact on the magnitude of the reaction. Finally, I document the absence of price reversals in the twenty days following blog publication, giving support to the hypothesis that blogs offer genuine information.

Handbook of Behavioral Economics - Foundations and Applications 1

Handbook of Behavioral Economics - Foundations and Applications 1
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 749
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0444633898

Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications presents the concepts and tools of behavioral economics. Its authors are all economists who share a belief that the objective of behavioral economics is to enrich, rather than to destroy or replace, standard economics. They provide authoritative perspectives on the value to economic inquiry of insights gained from psychology. Specific chapters in this first volume cover reference-dependent preferences, asset markets, household finance, corporate finance, public economics, industrial organization, and structural behavioural economics. This Handbook provides authoritative summaries by experts in respective subfields regarding where behavioral economics has been; what it has so far accomplished; and its promise for the future. This taking-stock is just what Behavioral Economics needs at this stage of its so-far successful career. - Helps academic and non-academic economists understand recent, rapid changes in theoretical and empirical advances within behavioral economics - Designed for economists already convinced of the benefits of behavioral economics and mainstream economists who feel threatened by new developments in behavioral economics - Written for those who wish to become quickly acquainted with behavioral economics

Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Handbook of the Economics of Finance
Author: G. Constantinides
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2003-11-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780444513632

Arbitrage, State Prices and Portfolio Theory / Philip h. Dybvig and Stephen a. Ross / - Intertemporal Asset Pricing Theory / Darrell Duffle / - Tests of Multifactor Pricing Models, Volatility Bounds and Portfolio Performance / Wayne E. Ferson / - Consumption-Based Asset Pricing / John y Campbell / - The Equity Premium in Retrospect / Rainish Mehra and Edward c. Prescott / - Anomalies and Market Efficiency / William Schwert / - Are Financial Assets Priced Locally or Globally? / G. Andrew Karolyi and Rene M. Stuli / - Microstructure and Asset Pricing / David Easley and Maureen O'hara / - A Survey of Behavioral Finance / Nicholas Barberis and Richard Thaler / - Derivatives / Robert E. Whaley / - Fixed-Income Pricing / Qiang Dai and Kenneth J. Singleton.

Inefficient Markets

Inefficient Markets
Author: Andrei Shleifer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2000-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191606898

The efficient markets hypothesis has been the central proposition in finance for nearly thirty years. It states that securities prices in financial markets must equal fundamental values, either because all investors are rational or because arbitrage eliminates pricing anomalies. This book describes an alternative approach to the study of financial markets: behavioral finance. This approach starts with an observation that the assumptions of investor rationality and perfect arbitrage are overwhelmingly contradicted by both psychological and institutional evidence. In actual financial markets, less than fully rational investors trade against arbitrageurs whose resources are limited by risk aversion, short horizons, and agency problems. The book presents and empirically evaluates models of such inefficient markets. Behavioral finance models both explain the available financial data better than does the efficient markets hypothesis and generate new empirical predictions. These models can account for such anomalies as the superior performance of value stocks, the closed end fund puzzle, the high returns on stocks included in market indices, the persistence of stock price bubbles, and even the collapse of several well-known hedge funds in 1998. By summarizing and expanding the research in behavioral finance, the book builds a new theoretical and empirical foundation for the economic analysis of real-world markets.