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Learning with Information Capacity Constraints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Lin Peng
Lin Peng
Affiliation:
lin_peng@baruch.cuny.edu, Department of Economics and Finance, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York, One Bernard Baruch Way, Box B10–225, New York, NY 10010.
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Motivated by the fact that investors have limited time and attention to process information, this paper provides a continuous-time equilibrium model to analyze the effects of a capacity constraint in the learning process of a representative investor, who optimally allocates her information capacity across multiple sources of uncertainty. Consequently, the cross-sectional structure of information and the resulting asset price dynamics are determined endogenously. The model provides implications on both consumption behavior and the cross-sectional differences in price informativeness in terms of supply of information, speed of price adjustments to fundamental shocks, and price reactions to firm disclosures.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , June 2005, pp. 307 - 329
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 2005

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