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Journal of Finance Vol. 50 No. 1 1995

Information Quality, Performance Measurement, and Security Demand in Rational Expectations Economies

Thomas H. Noe1,2; Buddhavarapu Sailesh Ramamurtie1,2

1 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta · 2 Georgia State University

Abstract

The relationship between asset demand and information quality in rational expectations economies is analyzed. First we derive a number of new summary descriptive statistics that measure four basic characteristics of investment style: asset selection, market timing, aggressiveness, and specialization. Then we relate these statistics to the divergence between a given investor's information structure and the market average information structure. Finally, we demonstrate that informational differentials can be identified, and consistently estimated, using ordinary least squares, from the time-series of observed asset demand.

DOI
10.2307/2329249
Volume
50
Issue
1
Pages
341
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