A New Pseudo-Bayesian Model with Implications to Financial Anomalies and Investors’ Behaviors
41 Pages Posted: 19 May 2010 Last revised: 21 Dec 2010
Date Written: December 12, 2010
Abstract
Barberis, Shleifer and Vishny (1998) and others have developed Bayesian models to explain investors’ behavioral biases by using the conservatism heuristics and the representativeness heuristics in making decisions. To extend their work, Lam, Liu, and Wong (2010) have developed a model of weight assignments using a pseudo-Bayesian approach that reflects investors’ behavioral biases. In this parsimonious model of investor sentiment, weights induced by investors’ conservative and representative heuristics are assigned to observations of the earning shocks of stock prices. Such weight assignments enable us to provide a quantitative link between some market anomalies and investors’ behavioral biases. This paper extends their work further by developing properties to explain some market anomalies including short-term underreaction, long-term overreaction, and excess volatility. We also explain in details the linkage between these market anomalies and investors’ behavioral biases.
Keywords: Bayesian model, Representative and conservative heuristics, Underreaction, Overreaction, Stock price, Stock return
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