Do markets prove pessimists right ?

Jürgen Eichberger and Ani Guerdjikova ()
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Jürgen Eichberger: Department of Economics - Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University
Ani Guerdjikova: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]

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Abstract: We study how ambiguity and ambiguity attitudes affect asset prices when consumers form their expectations based on past observations. In an overlapping generations economy with risk‐neutral yet ambiguity‐sensitive consumers, we describe limiting asset prices depending on the proportion of investor types. We then study the evolution of consumer‐type shares. With long memory, the market does not select for ambiguity neutrality. Whenever perceived ambiguity is sufficiently small, but positive, only pessimists survive and determine prices in the limit. With one‐period memory, equilibrium prices are determined by Bayesians. Yet, the average price of the risky asset is lower than its fundamental value.

Date: 2018-11
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Published in International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (4), pp.2259-2295. ⟨10.1111/iere.12336⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/iere.12336

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