Financial markets where traders neglect the informational content of prices

Erik Eyster, Matthew Rabin and Dimitri Vayanos

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Abstract: We present a model of a financial market where some traders are "cursed" when investing in a risky asset, failing to fully appreciate what prices convey about others' private information. Markets comprising cursed traders generate more trade than those comprising rationals; mixed markets can generate even more trade because rationals exploit return predictability caused by cursed. Per-trader volume in cursed markets increases with market size; volume may instead disappear when traders infer others' information from prices but dismiss it as noisier than their own. Public-information revelation raises rational and"dismissive" volume, but lowers cursed volume given moderate non-informational trading motives.

JEL-codes: D82 G00 G11 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 73 pages
Date: 2017-08-06
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Journal Article: Financial Markets Where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices (2019)
Working Paper: Financial markets where traders neglect the informational content of prices (2019)
Working Paper: Financial Markets where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices (2015)
Working Paper: Financial Markets where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices (2015)
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