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Short-term investment and equilibrium multiplicity

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I study the effects of the heterogeneity of traders' horizon in the context of a 2-period NREE model where all traders are risk averse. Owing to inventory effects, myopic trading behavior generates multiplicity of equilibria. In particular, two distinct patterns arise. Along the first equilibrium, short term traders anticipate higher second period price reaction to information arrival and, owing to risk aversion, scale back their trading intensity. This, in turn, reduces both risk sharing and information impounding into prices enforcing a high returns' volatility-low price informativeness equilibrium. In the second one, the opposite happens and a low volatility-high price informativeness equilibrium arises.

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  • Giovanni Cespa, 2000. "Short-term investment and equilibrium multiplicity," Economics Working Papers 520, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Jun 2002.
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    Financial economics; information and market efficiency;

    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • 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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