Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5098198 | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | 2016 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Investors tend to move funds when they are unhappy with their current portfolio managers׳ performance. We study the effect of the size of this flow of funds in an agent-based model of the financial market. The model combines the discrete choice approach from agent-based modelling, where all capital is mobile, with the evolutionary finance framework where all growth is endogenous. Our results show that, if investors exhibit recency bias in evaluating portfolio managers׳ performance, even a small amount of freely flowing capital has a huge impact on the market dynamics and the survival of noise traders. We also find that investors׳ intensity of choice is a driving force for excess volatility and extreme price movements when the size of the flow of funds is large.
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Authors
Jan Palczewski, Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, Tongya Wang,