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Behavioral Capital Asset Pricing Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Hersh Shefrin and
Meir Statman
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Abstract

This paper develops a capital asset pricing theory in a market where noise traders interact with information traders. Noise traders are traders who commit cognitive errors while information traders are free of cognitive errors. The theory includes the determination of the mean-variance efficient frontier, the return on the market portfolio, the term structure, and option prices. The paper derives a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of price efficiency in the presence of noise traders and analyzes the effects of noise traders on price efficiency, volatility, return anomalies, volume, and noise trader survival.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1994, pp. 323 - 349
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1994

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