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Giannetti, Mariassunta; Laeven, Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We show that the local bias in U.S. mutual fund portfolios varies significantly over time and is more pronounced at times of heightened market uncertainty, such as during financial crises. Similarly, the local bias is less pronounced in periods when market sentiment is strong. These results do...

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Endogenous Market Thinness and Stock Price Volatility

Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

resulting volatility can induce risk-averse transactors who face transaction costs to desert these markets altogether. Thus … thinness and the consequent price volatility may become joint self-perpetuating features of an equity market, whatever the … volatility of asset fundamentals. If, however, appropriate incentive schemes are adopted to encourage entry of additional …

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Riding the South Sea Bubble

Temin, Peter; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The efficient markets hypothesis implies that, in the presence of rational investors, bubbles cannot develop. We analyse the trading behaviour of a sophisticated investor, a London goldsmith bank, during the South Sea bubble in 1720. The bank believed the stock to be overvalued, yet found it...

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Investor Sentiment and Pre-Issue Markets

Cornelli, Francesca; Goldreich, David; Ljungqvist, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

What role do sentiment investors play in the pricing of newly listed stocks? We derive conditions under which we can distinguish between sentiment and rational pricing behaviour and test for the rationality of small investors’ demand for new stock issues using data from pre-issue (or...

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Skewness Risk Premium: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Lehnert, Thorsten; Lin, Yuehao; Wolff, Christian C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using an equilibrium asset and option pricing model in a production economy under jump diffusion, we show theoretically that the aggregated excess market returns can be predicted by the skewness risk premium, which is constructed to be the difference between the physical and the risk-neutral...

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Factor Based Index Tracking

Corielli, Francesco; Marcellino, Massimiliano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Index tracking requires building a portfolio of stocks (a replica) whose behaviour is as close as possible to that of a given stock index. Typically, much fewer stocks should appear in the replica than in the index, and there should be no low frequency (persistent) components in the tracking...

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Information Acquisition and Portfolio Performance

Guiso, Luigi; Jappelli, Tullio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Rational investors perceive correctly the value of financial information. Investment in information is therefore rewarded with a higher Sharpe ratio. Overconfident investors overstate the quality of their own information, and thus attain a lower Sharpe ratio. We contrast the implications of the...

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Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies

Brunnermeier, Markus K; Julliard, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

A reduction in inflation can fuel run-ups in housing prices if people suffer from money illusion. For example, investors who decide whether to rent or buy a house by simply comparing monthly rent and mortgage payments do not take into account that inflation lowers future real mortgage costs. We...

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The Real Effects of Investor Sentiment

Polk, Christopher; Sapienza, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Does inefficiency of financial markets have real consequences? Or does it only result in transfers of wealth from noise traders to arbitrageurs? We study firm business investment to address this question. In our model, benevolent managers of overvalued companies invest in projects with negative...

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Do Individual Investors Have Asymmetric Information Based On Work Experience?

Døskeland, Trond; Hvide, Hans K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using a novel and unique dataset from Norway, we analyze whether professional proximity is associated with asymmetric information and abnormal returns. We find that individuals hold an excess weight in stocks that are professionally close. For example, after excluding holdings of own-company and...

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