Ambiguity and informativeness of (non-)trading

Yinxiao Chu

Games and Economic Behavior, 2024, vol. 148, issue C, 367-384

Abstract: We study a sequential trading mechanism with ambiguity-averse agents modeled by multiple prior preferences. Informed traders generally mix between trading and non-trading, and their trading probability decreases with ambiguity. If agents are sufficiently ambiguous, informed traders do not trade, and only noise traders place orders; trading becomes uninformative. When signal accuracy is ambiguous, trading can make public beliefs more ambiguous over time, which leads to social learning failures in the long run. Moreover, since informed traders may not trade, no-trade can also be informative when signal accuracy is asymmetric. Even with continuous action spaces, sufficiently high ambiguity stops social learning.

Keywords: Ambiguity aversion; Sequential trading; Adverse selection; Informational cascade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 D82 D83 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2024.10.001

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