Heterogeneous Beliefs, Rare Disasters, and Asset Pricing

We illustrate the effects of heterogeneous beliefs about disasters on the equity premium and individual agents’ trading activities. When investors disagree about the chances or severity of disasters, those optimistic investors may insure the pessimists against their disaster risk exposure. Due to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Hui, Joslin, Scott Stephen Walter, Tran, Ngoc-Khanh
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67455
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-641X