Evolutionary Stable Stock Markets

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 170

25 Pages Posted: 4 Dec 2003

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Igor V. Evstigneev

University of Manchester - Economics, School of Social Sciences

Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

The University of Manchester - Department of Economics

Thorsten Hens

University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance; Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH); Swiss Finance Institute

Date Written: October 27, 2003

Abstract

This paper shows that a stock market is evolutionary stable if and only if stocks are evaluated by expected relative dividends. Any other market can be invaded by portfolio rules that will gain market wealth and hence change the valuation. In the model the valuation of assets is given by the wealth average of the portfolio rules in the market. The wealth dynamics is modelled as a random dynamical system. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the evolutionary stability of portfolio rules when (relative) dividend payoffs form a stationary Markov process. These local stability conditions lead to a unique evolutionary stable strategy according to which assets are evaluated by expected relative dividends.

Keywords: evolutionary finance, portfolio theory, incomplete markets

JEL Classification: G11, D52, D81

Suggested Citation

Evstigneev, Igor V. and Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner and Hens, Thorsten, Evolutionary Stable Stock Markets (October 27, 2003). Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 170, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=465300 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.465300

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