New models of trader beliefs and their application for explaining financial bubbles
One challenging and exigent problem in behavior finance is how to establish verifiable models describing the appearance and burst of price bubbles. Current results are enhanced in this paper through a series of improvement as follows: new models are proposed for describing the return and dividend processes, especially the trader's behavior with the adaptive expectation belief and the bounded rational expectation belief, respectively; with these models, we establish dynamical systems in terms of the price-to-earnings ratio and the forecast-to-earnings ratio; the detailed solution and asymptotic analysis of these equations provide new, elaborate and quantitative explanations for both the formation and disappearance of different price bubbles; inspired by the herd behavior framework, a new random belief evolutionary mechanism is devised to model the belief change between two beliefs; a specific genetic algorithm is designed to efficiently estimate model parameters; simulation and empirical studies are carried out to illustrate the application of new methods. Both theoretical and empirical results sufficiently show the reasonability, practicality, efficiency and robustness of our new models and methods for properly explaining the appearance and burst of different kinds of price bubbles.
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2011
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Authors: | Chen, Zhiping ; Duan, Qihong |
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Economic Modelling. - Elsevier, ISSN 0264-9993. - Vol. 28.2011, 5, p. 2215-2227
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Behavior Bubbles Adaptive expectation Bounded rational expectation Price-to-earnings ratio Forecast-to-earnings ratio |
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