"Simple Forecasts and Paradigm Shifts"
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Journal of Finance,
2007
Volume: 62
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Pages: 1207-42
Publication type: Journal article
Research Archive Topic: Business Economics and Public Policy, Capital Markets and Investments
Abstract
We study the asset pricing implications of learning in an environment in which the true model of the world is a multivariate one, but agents update only over the class of simple univariate models. Thus, if a particular simple model does a poor job of forecasting over a period of time, it is discarded in favor of an alternative simple model. The theory yields a number of distinctive predictions for stock returns, generating forecastable variation in the magnitude of the value-glamour return differential, in volatility, and in the skewness of returns. We validate several of these predictions empirically.
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