Bubbles, Crises, and Heterogeneous Beliefs
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This chapter reviews the quickly growing literature that builds on heterogeneous beliefs, a widely observed attribute of individuals, to explain bubbles, crises, and endogenous risk in financial markets. * This chapter is prepared for Handbook for Systemic Risk edited by Jean-Pierre Fouque and Joe Langsam. I thank Hersh Shefrin for helpful editorial suggestions.
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