Noise Traders

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James Dow

London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting

Gary B. Gorton

Yale School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Yale University - Yale Program on Financial Stability

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Date Written: May 2006

Abstract

Noise traders are agents whose theoretical existence has been hypothesized as a way of solving certain fundamental problems in Financial Economics. We briefly review the literature on noise traders. The is an entry for The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (Palgrave Macmillan: New York), edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, forthcoming in 2008.

Suggested Citation

Dow, James and Gorton, Gary B., Noise Traders (May 2006). NBER Working Paper No. w12256, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=905513

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