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Title: Dynamic Trading and Asset Prices: Keynes vs. Hayek

Author(s): Giovanni Cespa and Xavier Vives

Publication Date: October 2009

Keyword(s): Average expectations, Efficient market hypothesis, Higher order beliefs, Long and short-term trading, Momentum, Opaqueness, Over-reliance on public information and Reversal

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: We investigate the dynamics of prices, information and expectations in a competitive, noisy, dynamic asset pricing equilibrium model. We show that prices are farther away from (closer to) fundamentals compared with average expectations if and only if traders over- (under-) rely on public information with respect to optimal statistical weights. Both phenomena, in turn, occur whenever traders speculate on short-run price movements. For a given, positive level of residual payoff uncertainty, over-reliance on public information obtains if noise trade displays low persistence. This defines a "Keynesian" region; the complementary region is "Hayekian" in that prices are systematically closer to fundamentals than average expectations. The standard case of no residual uncertainty and noise trading following a random walk is on the frontier of the two regions and identifies the set of deep parameters for which traders abide by Keynes' dictum of concentrating on an asset "long term prospects and those only." The analysis explains accommodation and trend chasing strategies as well as momentum and reversal.

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Cespa, G and Vives, X. 2009. 'Dynamic Trading and Asset Prices: Keynes vs. Hayek'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7506