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Asset Prices and Asymmetric Reasoning

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  • Elena Asparouhova

  • Peter Bossaerts
  • Jon Eguia
  • William Zame

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We present a theory and experimental evidence on pricing and portfolio choices under asymmetric reasoning. We show that under asymmetric reasoning, prices do not reflect all (types of) reasoning. Some agents who observe prices that cannot be reconciled with their reasoning switch from perceiving the environment as risky to perceiving it as ambiguous. If ambiguity averse, these agents become price-insensitive and no longer influence prices directly. We present the results of an experiment and report that consistent with the theory i) mispricing decreases as the fraction of price-sensitive agents increases, and ii) price-insensitive agents trade to more balanced portfolios.

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  • Elena Asparouhova & Peter Bossaerts & Jon Eguia & William Zame, 2014. "Asset Prices and Asymmetric Reasoning," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers 14/640, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK.
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    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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