Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Subjective Stock Market Expectations

50 Pages Posted: 15 Jun 2019

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Florian Heiss

Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Michael Hurd

RAND Corporation - Santa Monica CA Offices

Maarten van Rooij

De Nederlandsche Bank; Netspar

Tobias Rossmann

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

Joachim K. Winter

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA); Deutsche Bundesbank - Research Department

Date Written: June 11, 2019

Abstract

Between 2004 and 2016, we elicited individuals’ subjective expectations of stock market returns in a Dutch internet panel at bi-annual intervals. In this paper, we develop a panel data model with a finite mixture of expectation types who differ in how they use past stock market returns to form current stock market expectations. The model allows. For rounding in the probabilistic responses and for observed and unobserved heterogeneity at several levels. We estimate the type distribution in the population and find evidence for considerable heterogeneity in expectation types and meaningful variation over time, in particular during the financial crisis of 2008/09.

Keywords: expectations, stock markets, financial crisis, mixture models, surveys

JEL Classification: D12, D84, G11

Suggested Citation

Heiss, Florian and Hurd, Michael and van Rooij, Maarten and Rossmann, Tobias and Winter, Joachim K., Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Subjective Stock Market Expectations (June 11, 2019). De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No. 640 (2019), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3404127 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3404127

Florian Heiss

Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Department of Economics ( email )

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Michael Hurd

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Tobias Rossmann

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Joachim K. Winter

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) ( email )

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