Arbeitspapier

Learning Rare Events

In this paper I consider a dynamically complete market model without intrinsic uncertainty. The only uncertainty is modelled by sunspots. Agents' beliefs are heterogeneous, but eventually become homogeneous in the sense that agents' beliefs are identical in the limit. I show that if some states of nature occur rarely then arbitrarily large market crashes may occur infinitely often. This result contrasts with Cass and Shell's (83) results which show that when beliefs are homogeneous, in complete markets without intrinsic uncertainty, sunspots do not matter.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 1199

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Thema
Convergence to Rational Expectations
Learning
Rate Events
Market Crashes

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sandroni, Alvaro
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science
(wo)
Evanston, IL
(wann)
1997

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sandroni, Alvaro
  • Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science

Entstanden

  • 1997

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