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Diagnostic Expectations and Stock Returns

Bordalo, Pedro - 2017

We revisit La Porta's (1996) finding that returns on stocks with the most optimistic analyst long term earnings growth forecasts are substantially lower than those for stocks with the most pessimistic forecasts. We document that this finding still holds, and present several further facts about...

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Finance and the Preservation of Wealth

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2013

We introduce the model of asset management developed in Gennaioli, Shleifer, and Vishny (2012) into a Solow-style neoclassical growth model with diminishing returns to capital. Savers rely on trusted intermediaries to manage their wealth (claims on capital stock), who can charge fees above costs...

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Salience and Asset Prices

Bordalo, Pedro - 2013

We present a simple model of asset pricing in which payoff salience drives investors' demand for risky assets. The key implication is that extreme payoffs receive disproportionate weight in the market valuation of assets. The model accounts for several puzzles in finance in an intuitive way,...

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Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns

Greenwood, Robin - 2013

We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past stock returns and with the level of the stock market. However,...

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A Model of Investor Sentiment

Barberis, Nicholas - 1997

Recent empirical research in finance has uncovered two families of pervasive regularities: underreaction of stock prices to news such as earnings announcements; and overreaction of stock prices to a series of good or bad news. In this paper, we present a parsimonious model of investor sentiment...

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Good News for Value Stocks : Further Evidence on Market Efficiency

Porta, Rafael La - 1995

This paper examines the hypothesis that the superior return to so-called value stocks is the result of expectational errors made by investors. We study stock price reactions around earnings announcements for value and glamour stocks over a 5 year period after portfolio formation. The...

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Do Institutional Investors Destabilize Stock Prices? Evidence on Herding and Feedback Trading

Lakonishok, Josef - 1991

evaluate the potential effect of their trading on stock prices. We address two aspects of trading by money managers: herding …, which refers to buying (selling) the same stocks as other managers buy (sell) at the same time; and positive … of substantial herding or positive-feedback trading by pension fund managers, except in small stocks. Also, there is no …

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Family Firms

Burkart, Mike - 2002

We present a model of succession in a firm controlled and managed by its founder. The founder decides between hiring a professional manager or leaving management to his heir, as well as on how much, if any, of the shares to float on the stock exchange. We assume that a professional is a better...

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