'Nobody is Perfect': Asset Pricing and Long-Run Survival When Heterogeneous Investors Exhibit Different Kinds of Filtering Errors

SAFE Working Paper No. 114

69 Pages Posted: 12 Aug 2015

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Nicole Branger

University of Münster - Finance Center Muenster

Christian Schlag

Goethe University Frankfurt; Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Lue Wu

Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Finance

Date Written: July 31, 2015

Abstract

In this paper we analyze an economy with two heterogeneous investors who both exhibit misspecified filtering models for the unobservable expected growth rate of the aggregated dividend. A key result of our analysis with respect to long-run investor survival is that there are degrees of model misspecification on the part of one investor for which there is no compensation by the other investor's deficiency. The main finding with respect to the asset pricing properties of our model is that the two dimensions of asset pricing and survival are basically independent. In scenarios when the investors are more similar with respect to their expected consumption shares, return volatilities can nevertheless be higher than in cases when they are very different.

Keywords: General Equilibrium, Asset Allocation, Learning, Different Beliefs, Over-Confidence

JEL Classification: G11, G12

Suggested Citation

Branger, Nicole and Schlag, Christian and Wu, Lue, 'Nobody is Perfect': Asset Pricing and Long-Run Survival When Heterogeneous Investors Exhibit Different Kinds of Filtering Errors (July 31, 2015). SAFE Working Paper No. 114, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2642274 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2642274

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