Internet Appendix for 'Belief Dispersion in the Stock Market'

45 Pages Posted: 18 May 2017

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Adem Atmaz

Purdue University - Daniels School of Business

Suleyman Basak

London Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: May 2017

Abstract

We develop a dynamic model of belief dispersion with a continuum of investors differing in beliefs. The model is tractable and qualitatively matches many of the empirical regularities in a stock price, its mean return, volatility, and trading volume. We find that the stock price is convex in cash-flow news and increases in belief dispersion, while its mean return decreases when the view on the stock is optimistic, and vice versa when pessimistic. Moreover, belief dispersion leads to a higher stock volatility and trading volume. We demonstrate that otherwise identical two-investor heterogeneous-beliefs economies do not necessarily generate our main results.

Full paper is available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2516054

Keywords: Asset pricing, belief dispersion, heterogeneous beliefs, stock price, mean return, volatility, trading volume, Bayesian learning

JEL Classification: D53, G12

Suggested Citation

Atmaz, Adem and Basak, Suleyman, Internet Appendix for 'Belief Dispersion in the Stock Market' (May 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2968432 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2968432

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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United Kingdom

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