Are long-horizon expectations (de-)stabilizing? : theory and experiments / by George Evans, Cars Hommes, Bruce McGough and Isabelle Salle. : FB3-5/2019-27E-PDF
"We consider boundedly rational agents who do not plan over the infinite future but make trading plans at a finite, arbitrary horizon. We investigate the role of that horizon in the price dynamics of an asset in a Lucas tree model. We then design a laboratory experiment to test our theoretical predictions against the behaviors of human subjects. Short-horizon markets are prone to substantial and prolonged deviations from rational expectations (RE). By contrast, markets populated by even a modest share of long-horizon forecasters exhibit convergence towards the fundamental price. Longer-horizon forecasts do display more heterogeneity and thus some departure from RE; however this same heterogeneity also prevents the coordination of subjects on wrong anchors—a pattern of behavior that leads to mispricing in short-horizon markets. Long-horizon forecasts are well-described by adaptive learning, which delivers convergence to RE equilibrium, while short-horizon forecasts exhibit destabilizing trend-chasing"--Abstract.
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| Ministère/Organisme | Bank of Canada. |
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| Titre | Are long-horizon expectations (de-)stabilizing? : theory and experiments / by George Evans, Cars Hommes, Bruce McGough and Isabelle Salle. |
| Titre de la série | Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2019-27 |
| Type de publication | Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal |
| Langue | [Anglais] |
| Format | Électronique |
| Document électronique | |
| Note(s) | "August 2019." Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-34) . |
| Information sur la publication | [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2019. ©2019 |
| Auteur / Contributeur | Evans, George, author. Hommes, Carsien Harm, author. McGough, Bruce, author. Salle, Isabelle, author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (ii, 61 pages) : figures. |
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| Descripteurs | Markets |
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