Market selection and asymmetric information

George J. Mailath*, Alvaro Sandroni

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Abstract

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium asset pricing model with heterogeneous agents and asymmetric information. We show how agents' different methods of gathering information affect their chances of survival in the market depending upon the nature of the information and the level of noise in the economy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)343-368
Number of pages26
JournalReview of Economic Studies
Volume70
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2003

Funding

Acknowledgements. We thank many audiences for their helpful comments. We also thank Mark Armstrong and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. Mailath thankfully acknowledges financial support under NSF Grants SBR-9810693 and SES-0095768. Sandroni thankfully acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation Grants SBR-9730385 and SES-0l09650. The work described here has been presented previously under the title "Poor Information can be Valuable".

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics and Econometrics

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