Albert "Pete" Kyle
University of Maryland, College Park
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4433 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 9192259696
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Maryland
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NBER Working Papers and Publications
| October 1988 | Smart Money, Noise Trading and Stock Price Behavior
with John Y. Campbell: t0071
This paper derives and estimates an equilibrium model of stock price behavior in which exogenous "noise traders" interact with risk-averse "smart money" investors. The model assumes that changes in exponentially detrended dividends and prices are normally distributed, and that smart money investors have constant absolute risk aversion. In equilibrium, the stock price is the present value of expected dividends, discounted at the riskless interest rate, less a constant risk premium, plus a term which is due to noise trading. The model expresses both stock prices and dividends as sums of unobserved components in continuous time. The model is able to explain the volatility and predictability of U.S. stock returns in the period 1871-1986 in either of two ways. Either the discount rate is 4% or ... Published: Review of Economic Studies, Vol 60, issue 202, January 1993, p. 1-34
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