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Endogenous Uncertainty is that component of economic risk and market volatility which is propagated within the economy … by the beliefs and actions of agents. The theory of Rational Belief (see Kurz [1994]) permits rational agents to hold … Uncertainty. This paper shows that most of the observed volatility in financial markets is generated by the beliefs of the agents …
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Market Hypothesis sense. The paper tries to show that this so-called excess volatility is to a large extend the result of the …, constant dividend growth rates as well as non-variable discount rates. It is shown that indeed volatility declines considerably …
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CAPM under power utility is excessively high. Moreover, estimates in the literature vary considerably across countries. We …
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This article studies the asset pricing and the business cycle implications of habit formation in a production economy with capital adjustment costs and endogenous labor supply. A specification of internal habit in the mix of consumption and leisure which minimizes the wealth effect on labor...
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period ahead; in the Volatility treatment, we also elicit subjective confidence intervals of forecasts, which we take as a … measure of perceived volatility. The realized asset price is derived from a Walrasian market equilibrium equation with non …-linear feedback from individual forecasts. Our experimental markets exhibit high volatility, fat tails and other properties typical of …
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and thereby excess volatility, persistence of price-dividend ratios, long-horizon return predictability and a risk premium …
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This paper constitutes a first analysis on stock returns and stock return volatility of energy corporations from the … European utilities, they lead to an appreciation of oil and gas stocks. Most importantly, we show that oil market volatility … negatively affects European oil and gas stocks. In contrast, energy stock volatility is not driven by volatility of the resource …
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We develop a model of rational bubbles based on the assumptions of unknown market liquidity and limited liability of traders. In a bubble, the price of an asset rises dynamically above its steady-state value, justified by rational expectations about future price developments. The larger the...
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This paper presents theoretical models and their empirical results for the return and variance dynamics of German stocks. A factor structure is used in order to allow for a parsimonious modeling of the first two moments of returns. Dynamic factor models with GARCH dynamics (GARCH(1,1)-M,...
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kernel smoothing of the conditional mean function. An asymptotic theory for the resulting kernel estimator is developed and …
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