Asset Mispricing Due to Cognitive Dissonance:

The behavior of equity prices is analyzed in a general equilibrium model where agents have preferences not only over consumption but also (implicitly) over their beliefs. To alleviate cognitive dissonance, investors endogenously choose to ignore information that conflicts too much with their ex ante...

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Main Author: Eckwert, Bernhard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C International Monetary Fund 2005
Series:IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 05/9
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Summary:The behavior of equity prices is analyzed in a general equilibrium model where agents have preferences not only over consumption but also (implicitly) over their beliefs. To alleviate cognitive dissonance, investors endogenously choose to ignore information that conflicts too much with their ex ante expectations. Depending on the new information that is released, systematic overvaluation and undervaluation of equity prices arise, as well as too much and too little equity price volatility. The distortion in the asset pricing process is closely related to the precision of the information
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (30 p)
ISBN:1451860285
9781451860283

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