We study a standard consumption based asset pricing model with rational investors who entertain subjective prior beliefs about price behavior. Optimal behavior then dictates that investors learn about price behavior from past price observations. We show that this imparts momentum and mean...

Anspruchsvoller Titel des emeritierten Professors an der Uni Innsbruck (u.a. Financial Economics, Finanzanalyse). Schredelseker bietet Ergebnisse aus der Kapitalmarktforschung anschaulich und präzise abgeleitet dar mit dem Ziel, Anlegern ein tieferes Verständnis des Finanzmarkts zu vermitteln....

1. From theory to visualization: general analysis framework in finance -- 2. From Micheal to Heckscher-Ohlin : ODE for capital account liberation -- 3. From European to Asian option : PDE for capital account liberation -- 4. From financial crises to currency substitution : limit cycle theory for...

Within the seminal asset-pricing model by Brock and Hommes (1998), heterogeneous boundedly rational agents choose between a fixed number of expectation rules to forecast asset prices. However, agents' heterogeneity is limited in the sense that they typically switch between a representative...

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