Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Sciences, Vol 3, No 1 (2007)

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Bootstrap Estimate of a Behavioral Stock Price Model

N Lalitha, D N Rao

Abstract


A behavioral stock price model that incorporates inertia
in investor behavior is developed and estimated. The estimates are consistent but biased, because of the presence of lagged dependent variables and errors-in-variables. The method of recursive bootstrap overcomes these problems and seems to provide a more accurate estimate of the behavioral model.

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