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Overconfidence is one of the most important biases in financial markets and commonly associated with excessive trading and asset market bubbles. So far, most of the finance literature takes overconfidence as a given, "static" personality trait. In this paper we introduce a novel experimental...
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capacity to override or inhibit undesired impulses that may drive prices. We implement the first experiment to address the …
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When banks choose similar investment strategies, the financial system becomes vulnerable to common shocks. Banks decide about their investment strategy ex-ante based on a private belief about the state of the world and a social belief formed from observing the actions of peers. When the social...
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We show that a common (identical across investors) irrationality in information processing can be enough to create nontrivial trade, using one of standard partial-equilibrium environments. We can attribute this trade to their common irrationality because we strip the investors and their...
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We consider an optimal liquidation model in which an investor is required to execute meta-orders during intraday trading periods, and his trading activity triggers child orders and endogenously affects future order flow, both instantaneously and permanently. Under the assumptions of risk...
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Using a randomized information experiment embedded in a representative survey, we study households' economic …
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This paper sheds new light on herding of institutional investors by using a unique database that identifies every … transaction made by financial institutions in the German stock market. First, the analysis reveals that herding behavior of … previous studies overestimate herding. Third, our results suggest that herding by large financial institutions mainly results …
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