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What is Heterogeneous Belief

Chapter 6
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
Agents have different expectations for the state of future. Traders with heterogeneous beliefs have different price beliefs for next periods' prices in the financial market.
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Noise Trader
Po-Keng Cheng (State University of New York, Stony Brook University, USA)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch006
Abstract
This paper briefly reviews the literature on the topics of noise traders in the financial market. We cover the no-trade theorem under complete and competitive markets in the 1980s, the noise trader approach to finance in the 1990s, and recent studies from several approaches related to noise traders, such as heterogeneous agent models, investor sentiment, retail investors, experimental analysis, and extrapolation. Understanding and tackling the issues resulted from noise traders would be essential for us to realize how financial and economic markets work.
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Chapter 6
Noise Trader
Agents have different expectations for the state of future. Traders with heterogeneous beliefs have different price beliefs for next periods' prices in the financial market.
Published in Chapter: Noise Trader; From: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management
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