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Recent studies seem to suggest market inefficiency–specifically, long-term under reaction or overreaction to information. It is time to ask whether this literature, viewed as a whole, in fact suggests that efficiency should be discarded. My answer is a solid no, for two reasons.
First, an efficient market generates categories of events that individually suggest that prices overreact to information. But in an efficient market, apparent under reaction will be about as frequent as overreaction. If anomalies split randomly between under- and overreaction, they are consistent with market efficiency. It turns out that identified anomalies fall in a roughly even split between apparent overreaction and under reaction.
Second, and more important, we find that the long-term return anomalies are sensitive to methodology. They tend to become marginal or disappear when exposed to different models for expected (normal) returns or when different statistical approaches are used to measure them. Thus, even viewed one-by-one, most long-term return anomalies can reasonably be attributed to chance.
Below, I review existing studies without questioning their inferences. My conclusion is that, viewed as a whole, the long-term return literature does not identify overreaction or under reaction as the dominant phenomenon, while the random split predicted by market efficiency holds up rather well.
Overreaction and Under reaction: An Overview
Werner F. M. DeBondt and Richard Thaler published one of the first papers on long-term return anomalies in 1985. They found that when stocks are ranked on three- to five-year past returns, past winners tend to be future losers, and vice versa. They attributed these long-term return reversals to investor overreaction. In forming expectations, investors give too much weight to the past performance of firms and too little to the fact that performance tends to revert to the mean. DeBondt and Thaler seem to argue that overreaction to past information is a general prediction of the behavioral decision theory Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky proposed in 1982. Thus, one could take overreaction to be the prediction of a behavioral finance alternative to market efficiency.
“Long-term return anomalies are sensitive to methodology.”
I also classify the poor long-term post event returns of initial public offerings (IPOs) and seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) in the overreaction camp. SEOs have strong stock returns in the three years prior to the issue. It seems safe to presume that these strong returns reflect strong earnings. It also seems safe to presume that IPOs have strong past earnings to display when going public.
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Although the main theme of this sermon was the Anger of God, this sermon is meant to depict the relationship between the Holy God and sinful man. First of all, Edwards describes the natural condition of man as being bleak. He says that God’s fury “burns against them”, that God’s “glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them” (196). What he means by this is that “unconverted men” are in a standing with God that is precarious (196). They have not yet fallen under the judgment of God, but could at any given time be swallowed whole by the wrath of God. He continues to picture this situation by describing a man as “walk[ing] over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen” (197). The general reason that man is in this state is because his wickedness is great. Edwards believes that man in his natural state is completely sinful. He states that “There are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell fire” (196). He shows that every man has nothing but evil inside of him, and can do nothing to rid himself of it. All of this evil makes a man “as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell” (199). He also believes that man’s righteousness is weak, and anyone that relies on his good works to earn his way into a relationship with God is destined to fail. He says that all of the good deeds that a man could do would keep him out of hell just as much as “a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock” (199).
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There is a lot of research work going on in this particular field, more so since the crisis of 2008. The purpose of this article was to make readers aware of the subject .Behavioral finance is an interesting mix of logics, psychology and economics. Budding investors and management students should look into this in more detail so that they are better equipped to make financial decisions.
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