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Inefficient Markets$
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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

The Closed End Fund Puzzle

Chapter:
(p. 53 ) 3 The Closed End Fund Puzzle
Source:
Inefficient Markets
Author(s):

Andrei Shleifer (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0198292279.003.0003

Begins by describing the closed end fund puzzle and enumerating some of the standard accounts that have been used to explain it. Then, applying the model developed in the previous chapter, the author comes to the conclusion that the apparent puzzle could be interpreted in terms of the influence of (individual) investors sentiments on securities prices. This interpretation, in turn, provides some useful hypotheses that are tested with evidence from the US, proving that behavioural finance theory can provide testable predictions.

Keywords:   behavioural finance, closed end puzzle, financial market, investors sentiments, mutual funds, returns, security price, US

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