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Washington University in St. Louis

Essays on Price Dynamics and Market Selection

Abstract

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<p>This paper analyzes and characterizes the dynamics of wealth-share and equilibrium price in a stochastic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous consumers. The characterization enables a comparison between probabilistic learning and price evolution, revealing that prices incorporate "sparse" information efficiently. Results on wealth-share are obtained by comparing traders' optimal investment-consumption plans against their prices. This novel approach extends recent results in the literature by providing a condition that is necessary as well as sufficient for a trader to vanish. The results are applied to survival in iid, survival in large economies, and survival of traders that follow strategies commonly observed in real markets.</p>

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Economics
Year dc:date.available
2013

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Massari, Filippo
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Werner Ploberger

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
English (en)

Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:openscholarship.wustl.edu:etd-2080

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Massari, Filippo. Essays on Price Dynamics and Market Selection. Dissertation thesis, 2013. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/1080