Imperfect Information and Investor Heterogeneity in the Bond Market

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-6

3. Imperfect Information and Complete Asset Markets in Continuous Time

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   Pages 7-43

4. Heterogeneous Time Preferences - The Preferred Habitat Theory Revisited

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   Pages 45-71

5. Imperfect Information: The Term Structure when the Growth Rate is Unknown

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   Pages 73-89

6. Bulls and Bears: Heterogeneous Expectations

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   Pages 91-109

7. Back Matter

   Pages 111-116

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Real world investors differ in their tastes and attitudes and they do not have, in general, perfect information about the future prospects of the economy. Most theoretical models, however, assume to the contrary that investors are homogeneous and perfectly informed about the market. In this book, an attempt is made to overcome these shortcomings. In three different case studies, the effect of heterogeneous time preferences, heterogeneous beliefs and imperfect information about the economy's growth on the term structure of interest rates are studied. The initial chapter gives an introduction to the theory of financial markets in continuous time under imperfect information and establishes the existence of an equilibrium with complete markets.

• Bond Market
• Bonds
• Financial Economics
• Finanzierungstheorie
• Imperfect Information
• Kapitalmarkttheorie
• Rentenmarkt
• Termin Structure of Interest Rates
• Unvollständige Information
• Zinsstruktur
• calculus
• modeling
• quantitative finance

• Department of Economics, Institute of Economic Theory, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

  Frank Riedel

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