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Speculation and Financial Wealth Distribution Under Belief Heterogeneity

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Under limited commitment that prevents agents from pledging their future non‐financial wealth, agents with incorrect beliefs always survive by holding on to their non‐financial wealth. Friedman's () market selection hypothesis suggests that their financial wealth trends towards zero in the long run. However, I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with incomplete markets due to collateral constraints and show that the hypothesis depends on the degree of market incompleteness. When markets are more incomplete, over‐optimistic agents not only survive but also prosper by speculation. Stricter margin requirements protect the wealth of the optimists and thereby increase asset price volatility.

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  • Dan Cao, 2018. "Speculation and Financial Wealth Distribution Under Belief Heterogeneity," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 128(614), pages 2258-2281, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:econjl:v:128:y:2018:i:614:p:2258-2281
    DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12519
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    1. Saki Bigio & Eduardo Zilberman, 2020. "Speculation-Driven Business Cycles," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 865, Central Bank of Chile.
    2. Gregor Boehl & Cars Hommes, 2021. "Rational vs. Irrational Beliefs in a Complex World," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2021_287, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
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    7. Laura Bakkensen & Toan Phan & Russell Wong, 2023. "Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence," Working Paper 23-01, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
    8. Cao, Dan & Evans, Martin & Lua, Wenlan, 2020. "Real Exchange Rate Dynamics Beyond Business Cycles," MPRA Paper 99054, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 10 Mar 2020.
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    10. Dan Cao & Wenlan Luo & Guangyu Nie, 2023. "Global GDSGE Models," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 51, pages 199-225, December.
    11. Johannes Brumm & Michael Grill & Felix Kubler & Karl Schmedders, 2023. "Re-use of collateral: Leverage, volatility, and welfare," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 47, pages 19-46, January.
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    13. Dindo, Pietro, 2019. "Survival in speculative markets," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 181(C), pages 1-43.
    14. Cao, Dan, 2020. "Recursive equilibrium in Krusell and Smith (1998)," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 186(C).

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