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Present value calculations require predictions of cash flows both at near and distant future points in time. Such predictions are generally surrounded by considerable uncertainty and may critically depend on assumptions about parameter values as well as the form and stability of the data...
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In this paper we investigate the effects of central bank interventions (CBI) in a noise trading model with chartists and fundamentalists. We first estimate a model in which chartists extrapolate past returns and fundamentalists forecast a mean reverting dynamics of the exchange rate towards a...
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We study reputational herding in financial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008 …
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The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their experience gained in past rounds to draw inferences from...
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We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning. Participants interact in two parallel sequences, the observed and the unobserved sequence. Only the actions of the observed entail informational benefits to subsequent...
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The paper employs a dynamic market-wide herding behavior measure of 117,166 lending-based campaigns in 119 online … show that herding behavior plays an important signaling role in reducing opportunity costs if the auction does not receive … enough monetary bids. Additionally, our threshold models identify significant herding behavior after funding goals are raised …
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actions that contradict their high quality signals they herd more extensively than predicted by Bayes-rational herding …-Bayesian updating and informational misinferences are the two channels that drive excessive herding, while the strong (resp. mild … observational learning accounts for the phenomenon of excessive herding, it captures well herd behavior with medium quality signals …
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We report findings from a survey of United States foreign exchange traders. Our results indicate that: (i) in recent years electronically-brokered transactions have risen substantially, mostly at the expense of traditional brokers; (ii) the market norm is an important det e rminant of interbank...
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