期刊名称:Birkbeck Working Papers in Economics and Finance / School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck College
印刷版ISSN:1745-8587
出版年度:2006
卷号:2006
出版社:London University
摘要:In complete markets economies (Sandroni [15]), or in economies with Pareto
optimal outcomes (Blume and Easley [9]), the market selection hypothesis holds,
as long as traders have identical discount factors. Traders who survive must
have beliefs that merge with the truth. We show that in incomplete markets,
regardless of traders’ discount factors, the market selects for a range of
beliefs, at least some of which do not merge with the truth. We also show that
impatient traders with incorrect beliefs can survive and that these incorrect
beliefs impact prices. These beliefs may be chosen so that they are far from the
truth.