Smart Money, Noise Trading and Stock Price Behavior /
Campbell, John Y.
Smart Money, Noise Trading and Stock Price Behavior / John Y. Campbell, Albert S. Kyle. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1988. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER technical working paper series no. t0071 . - Technical Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. t0071. .
October 1988.
This paper derives and estimates an equilibrium model of stock price behavior in which exogenous "noise traders" interact with risk-averse "smart money" investors. The model assumes that changes in exponentially detrended dividends and prices are normally distributed, and that smart money investors have constant absolute risk aversion. In equilibrium, the stock price is the present value of expected dividends, discounted at the riskless interest rate, less a constant risk premium, plus a term which is due to noise trading. The model expresses both stock prices and dividends as sums of unobserved components in continuous time. The model is able to explain the volatility and predictability of U.S. stock returns in the period 1871-1986 in either of two ways. Either the discount rate is 4% or below, and the constant risk premium is large; or the discount rate is 5% or above, and noise trading, correlated with fundamentals, increases the volatility of stock prices. The data are not well able to distinguish between these explanations.
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Smart Money, Noise Trading and Stock Price Behavior / John Y. Campbell, Albert S. Kyle. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1988. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER technical working paper series no. t0071 . - Technical Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. t0071. .
October 1988.
This paper derives and estimates an equilibrium model of stock price behavior in which exogenous "noise traders" interact with risk-averse "smart money" investors. The model assumes that changes in exponentially detrended dividends and prices are normally distributed, and that smart money investors have constant absolute risk aversion. In equilibrium, the stock price is the present value of expected dividends, discounted at the riskless interest rate, less a constant risk premium, plus a term which is due to noise trading. The model expresses both stock prices and dividends as sums of unobserved components in continuous time. The model is able to explain the volatility and predictability of U.S. stock returns in the period 1871-1986 in either of two ways. Either the discount rate is 4% or below, and the constant risk premium is large; or the discount rate is 5% or above, and noise trading, correlated with fundamentals, increases the volatility of stock prices. The data are not well able to distinguish between these explanations.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.