Informational differences and learning in an asset market with boundedly rational agents

Cees Diks () and Pietro Dindo

No 06-11, CeNDEF Working Papers from Universiteit van Amsterdam, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance

Abstract: The price formation mechanism in an asset market with boundedly rational agents can be viewed as a filter acting on incoming news about economic fundamentals such as future dividends. Here we study the properties of an asset pricing market filter obtained under some simple behavioral assumptions, and examine the resulting dynamical structure of the fluctuations of the market price around the time-varying underlying fundamental reference price. The starting point is an asset pricing model in which agents can choose among two different degrees of information on fundamentals. At the same time agents are also learning the growth rate of the dividend generating process. This leads to prices that deviate substantially and persistently from the fundamental value in the short run but stay close to it in the long run. In particular, prices follow a time-varying nonlinear mean reverting dynamics which we show to be related to agents' interaction triggered by informational differences.

Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://cendef.uva.nl/binaries/content/assets/subsi ... 11.pdf?1417181835696 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Informational differences and learning in an asset market with boundedly rational agents (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ams:ndfwpp:06-11

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CeNDEF Working Papers from Universiteit van Amsterdam, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance Dept. of Economics and Econometrics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 11, NL - 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Cees C.G. Diks ().