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This lecture describes how {cite:t}`Morris1996` extended the Harrison–Kreps model {cite}`HarrKreps1978` of speculative asset pricing.
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Like Harrison and Kreps's model, Harris's model determines the price of a dividend-yielding asset that is traded by risk-neutral investors who have heterogeneous beliefs.
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Like Harrison and Kreps's model, Morris's model determines the price of a dividend-yielding asset that is traded by risk-neutral investors who have heterogeneous beliefs.
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The Harrison-Kreps model assumes that the traders have dogmatic, hard-wired beliefs about the asset's payout stream, i.e., its dividend stream or "fundamentals".
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Thus, although traders have identical *information*, i.e., histories of information, they have different *posterior distributions* for prospective dividends.
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Just as in the hard-wired beliefs model of Harrison and Kreps, those differences set the stage for the emergence of an environment in which investors engange in *speculative behavior* in the sense that sometimes they place a value on the asset that exceeds what they regard as its fundamental value, i.e., the present value of its prospective dividend stream.
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Just as in the hard-wired beliefs model of Harrison and Kreps, those differences set the stage for the emergence of an environment in which investors engage in *speculative behavior* in the sense that sometimes they place a value on the asset that exceeds what they regard as its fundamental value, i.e., the present value of its prospective dividend stream.
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Let's start with some standard imports:
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* You can think of $\beta$ as being related to a net risk-free interest rate $r$ by $\beta = 1/(1+r)$.
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Owning the asset at the end of period $t$ entitles the owner to divdends at time $t+1, t+2, \ldots$.
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Owning the asset at the end of period $t$ entitles the owner to dividends at time $t+1, t+2, \ldots$.
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Because the dividend process is i.i.d., trader $i$ thinks that the fundamental value of the asset is the capitalized value of the dividend stream, namely, $\sum_{j=1}^\infty \beta^j \hat \theta_i
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= \frac{\hat \theta_i}{r}$, where $\hat \theta_i$ is the mean of the trader's posterior distribution over $\theta$.
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All traders observe the same dividend history $(d_1, d_2, \ldots, d_t)$.
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Based on that information flow, all traders their subjective distribution over $\theta$ by applying Bayes' rule.
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Based on that information flow, all traders update their subjective distribution over $\theta$ by applying Bayes' rule.
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However, traders have *heterogeneous priors* over the unknown dividend probability $\theta$.
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While they often construct models in which agents have different *information*, they prefer to assume that all agents inside the model
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share the same statistical model -- i.e., the same joint probability distribution over the random processes being modeled.
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For a statistician or an economic theorist, a statistical model is joint probability distribution that is characeterized by a known parameter vector.
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For a statistician or an economic theorist, a statistical model is joint probability distribution that is characterized by a known parameter vector.
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When working with a *manifold* of statistical models swept out by parameters, say $\theta$ in a known set $\Theta$, economic theorists
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reduce that manifold of models to a single model by imputing to all agents inside the model the same prior probability distribution over $\theta$.
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