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When Investors Fear the Wrong Model
New research explores how investors’ attitudes toward risk shape their fears about market models. The study finds that risk-averse investors, who typically want to hedge against future market moves, endogenously fear a world where stock returns are persistent, as this eliminates hedging opportunities. Conversely, risk-tolerant investors fear mean reversion. The model demonstrates how these distinct fears over model misspecification can lead to real-world phenomena like belief scarring, equity market nonparticipation, and extrapolative expectations about future returns.
Why it might matter to you:
This work provides a formal, theoretical framework for discussing investor psychology and market anomalies that is directly applicable to advanced finance curricula. It offers a bridge between abstract portfolio theory and behavioral finance, giving you a robust model to explain why different investor types might systematically misinterpret or distrust market data. This can enrich lectures on dynamic asset allocation and the limits of rational models.
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