Expectations and Learning from Prices.

We study mislearning from equilibrium prices, and contrast this with mislearning from exogenous fundamentals. We micro-found mislearning from prices with a psychologically founded theory of "Partial Equilibrium Thinking" (PET), where traders learn fundamental information from prices, but fail to rea...

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Publicado en:Review of Economic Studies Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 1341 - 1375
Autores principales: Bastianello, Francesca, Fontanier, Paul
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA May2025
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          Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA
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        Expectations
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        Inelastic markets
        Learning
        Subjective models
      ab: We study mislearning from equilibrium prices, and contrast this with mislearning from exogenous fundamentals. We micro-found mislearning from prices with a psychologically founded theory of "Partial Equilibrium Thinking" (PET), where traders learn fundamental information from prices, but fail to realize others do so too. PET leads to over-reaction, and upward sloping demand curves, thus contributing to more inelastic markets. The degree of individual-level over-reaction and the extent of inelasticity vary with the composition of traders, and with the informativeness of new information. More generally, unlike mislearning from fundamentals, mislearning from prices (i) generates a two-way feedback between prices and beliefs that can provide an arbitrarily large amount of amplification and (ii) can rationalize both over-reaction and more inelastic markets. The two classes of biases are not mutually exclusive. Instead, they interact in very natural ways, and mislearning from prices can vastly amplify mislearning from fundamentals.
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