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How To Group Market Participants? Heterogeneity In Hedging Behavior

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  • Pennings, Joost M.E.
  • Garcia, Philip
  • Irwin, Scott H.
  • Good, Darrel L.

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Using a generalized mixture model, we model individual heterogeneity by identifying groups of participants that respond in a similar manner to the determinants of economic behavior. The procedure emphasizes the role of theory as the determinants of behavior are used to simultaneously explain market activities and to discriminate among groups of market participants. We show the appealing properties of this modeling approach by comparing it with two often used grouping methods in an empirical study in which we estimate the factors affecting market participants' hedging behavior.

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Paper provided by American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) in its series 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada with number 21963.

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Keywords: Institutional and Behavioral Economics;

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