Paper #1118
- Title:
- Dynamic higher order expectations
- Author:
- Kristoffer Nimark
- Date:
- October 2007 (Revised: March 2011)
- Abstract:
- In models where privately informed agents interact, agents may need to form higher order expectations, i.e. expectations of other agents' expectations. This paper develops a tractable framework for solving and analyzing linear dynamic rational expectations models in which privately informed agents form higher order expectations. The framework is used to demonstrate that the well-known problem of the infinite regress of expectations identified by Townsend (1983) can be approximated to an arbitrary accuracy with a finite dimensional representation under quite general conditions. The paper is constructive and presents a fixed point algorithm for finding an accurate solution and provides weak conditions that ensure that a fixed point exists. To help intuition, Singleton's (1987) asset pricing model with disparately informed traders is used as a vehicle for the paper.
- Keywords:
- Dynamic Higher Order Expectations, Private Information, Asset Pricing
- Area of Research:
- Macroeconomics and International Economics
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