We examine how different investment horizons, and consequently the number of hands through which a security passes during its life, affect prices in a laboratory market populated by overlapping generations of investors. We find that (i) price deviations are larger in markets populated only by shorthorizon investors compared to markets with long-horizon investors; (ii) for a given maturity of se...

This paper develops a model of weight assignments using a pseudo-Bayesian approach that reflects investors’ behavioral biases. In this parsimonious model of investor sentiment, weights induced by investors’ conservative and representative heuristics are assigned to observations of the earning shocks of stock prices. Such weight assignments enable us to provide a quantitative link between some m...

This paper examines if markets populated by short-horizon investors tend to have the prices come unhooked from their fundamental values or cash flows. For prices to be near the fundamental value in a market populated with short-horizon investors, the investors must induct backward from future cash flows to the present values. We argue that investors’ ability to backward induct depends criticall...

This paper explores the long-standing empirical fact of increased trading volume around news releases through the lens of canonical models of gradual information diffusion and differences of opinion. I use a unique dataset of clicks on news by key finance professionals to distinguish between trading among investors who see the news at different times and trading among investors who see the same...

This paper introduces an order-driven market with heterogeneous investors, who submit limit or market orders according to their own trading rules. The trading rules are repeatedly updated via simple learning and adaptation of the investors. We analyze markets with and without learning and adaptation. The simulation results show that our model with learning and adaptation successfully replicates...

the process of economic globalization and integration has had a tremendous growth in recent years and the convergence of various economic sectors, including the financial markets is increasingly in the spotlight. this increasing trend has strengthened investors' interests in the subject of convergence among the world's stock markets and investors experimentally show a passion for unde...

We exploit the restrictions of intertemporal portfolio choice in the presence of nonfinancial income risk to design and implement tests of hedging that use the information contained in the actual portfolio of the investor. We use a unique dataset of Swedish investors with information broken down at the investor level and into various components of wealth, investor income, tax positions and inve...