We contribute to the debate over whether forecastable stock returns reflect an unexploited profit opportunity or rationally reflect risk differentials. We test whether agents could earn excess returns by selecting stocks which have a low market price compared to an estimate of the fundamental...

Models in behavioural finance have been developed to explain apparent anomalies in stock returns. A property common to a number of these models is that agents under react in the short run to public signals about future earnings. This contrasts sharply with the popular informal belief that stock...

In this paper we apply a regression test of the volatility of asset prices to a cross-section data set of US stock prices each year between 1932-71. We show that the rejection of REEM in the time series domain carries over to a data set consisting of observations on a cross-section of individual...

We report that excess returns in the bond market exhibit the same features of short-term momentum and long-term reversals that are observed in the equity market. We test whether these findings can be accounted for within a behavioral framework using the expectations of the short yield that are...

We show that uncertainty about parameters of the short rate model can account for the rejections of the expectations hypothesis for the term structure of interest rates. We assume that agents employ Bayes rule to learn parameter values in the context of a model that is subject to stochastic...

Empirical rejections of the rational expectations hypothesis (REH) in the bond market have attracted much attention. In this paper we demonstrate that if agents have information about next period's short yield in addition to that contained in the current short yield, a small sample bias arises...

The expectations hypothesis of the term structure has been decisively rejected by a large empirical literature that spans several decades. In this paper, using a newly constructed dataset of synthetic zero coupon bond yields, we show that evidence against the expectations hypothesis became very...

We propose a behavioral explanation for the widely reported rejection of the rational expectations model of the term structure of interest rates. We distinguish between public and private information and show that overconfidence among investors about the precision of private information can...