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Baker and Wurgler [2007] discuss numerous events characterized by dramatic changes in the levels of stock prices, such as the 1929 market crash and the “dot.com bubble” of the late 1990s. In these cases, it has been difficult to fit the unemotional investor of the traditional model to the data. Research in behavioral finance has been working to replace the standard finance model with one built on two assumptions. The first assump- tion is that investors are subject to sentiment. Investor sentiment is defined broadly as beliefs about future cash flows and investment risks that are not justified by the facts. The second assumption is that betting against sentimental investors is costly and risky because rational investors are not as aggressive in driving prices to their fundamental values due to limits on arbitrage.A newer behavioral finance paradigm has emerged in response to the predictive shortcomings of the traditional model. This new behavioral finance thinking argues that financial markets can be better understood through models in which some agents are less than fully rational. This field has two building blocks: 1) “limits to arbitrage,” which can make it difficult for rational traders to undo price dislocations caused by less rational investors, and 2) psychology, which documents behavioral deviations from
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