Imperfect Information and Investor Heterogeneity in the Bond Market

Real world investors differ in their tastes and attitudes and they do not have, in general, perfect information about the future prospects of the economy. Most theoretical models, however, assume to the contrary that investors are homogeneous and perfectly informed about the market. In this book, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riedel, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:Contributions to Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Imperfect Information and Complete Asset Markets in Continuous Time
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 A Competitive Financial Market with Imperfect
  • 1.3 Martingale Representation Theorem for the Innovation Process
  • 1.4 The Existence of an Arrow-Debreu Equilibrium, Pareto Efficiency and the Representative Agent
  • 1.5 Completeness of the Market and Existence of a Financial Equilibrium
  • 1.6 Pricing Redundant Securities and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
  • 2. Heterogeneous Time Preferences - The Preferred Habitat Theory Revisited
  • 2.1 Modeling Preferred Habitat Time Preferences
  • 2.2 A Model with Heterogeneous Time Preferences
  • 2.3 Equilibrium
  • 2.4 Analysis of the Term Structure
  • 2.4.1 Illustration: Logistic Time Preferences
  • 2.5 The Demand for Long-Term Bonds
  • 3. Imperfect Information: The Term Structure when the Growth Rate is Unknown
  • 3.1 The Model
  • 3.2 Estimating the Drift
  • 3.3 Equilibrium with Perfect and Imperfect Information
  • 3.4 The Yield Curve with Normal and Bernoulli Prior Beliefs
  • 3.5 General Prior Beliefs
  • 4. Bulls and Bears: Heterogeneous Expectations
  • 4.1 Setup
  • 4.2 Equilibrium
  • 4.3 Two Examples
  • 4.3.1 Unobservable Constant Drift
  • 4.3.2 Stationary Unobservable Drift
  • References
  • List of Figures