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Andrei Shleifer

Print publication date: 2000

Print ISBN-13: 9780198292272

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0198292279.001.0001

Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets

Chapter:
(p. 28 ) 2 Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets
Source:
Inefficient Markets
Author(s):

Andrei Shleifer (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0198292279.003.0002

Examines how noise traders can limit arbitrage even in an environment that is very close to a textbook model. The author constructs an overlapping generation (OLG) model where noise traders generate unpredictable erroneous beliefs and arbitrageurs try to exploit these misperceptions. He shows that noise traders can affect prices and that they could even earn a higher average rate of return. The model also illustrates that even arbitrage of fundamentally identical securities can be risky, so with lack of close substitutes, it might be riskier still.

Keywords:   arbitrage, financial market, noise trader, noise trader risk, overlapping generation (OLG) model, rate of return, securities, stock price

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