Which of the following market structures has the flattest firm demand curve, all else equal?

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Trade Policy and Loss Aversion

The American Economic Review

Vol. 98, No. 4 (Sep., 2008)

, pp. 1675-1691 (17 pages)

Published By: American Economic Association

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29730141

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Why Do Demand Curves for Stocks Slope Down?

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Vol. 44, No. 5 (Oct., 2009)

, pp. 1013-1044 (32 pages)

Published By: Cambridge University Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40505958

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Representative agent models are inconsistent with existing empirical evidence for steep demand curves for individual stocks. This paper resolves the puzzle by proposing that stock prices are instead set by two separate classes of investors. While the market portfolio is still priced by individual investors based on their collective risk aversion, those individual investors also delegate part of their wealth to active money managers, who use that capital to price stocks in the cross section. In equilibrium, the fee charged by active managers has to equal the before-fee alpha they earn. This endogenously determines the amount of active capital and the slopes of demand curves. A calibration of the model reveals that demand curves can be steep enough to match the magnitude of many empirical findings, including the price effects for stocks entering or leaving the S&P 500 index.

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The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) is published bimonthly in February, April, June, August, October, and December by the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in cooperation with the Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School. The JFQA publishes theoretical and empirical research in financial economics. Topics include corporate finance, investments, capital and security markets, and quantitative methods of particular relevance to financial researchers.

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Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge University Press is committed by its charter to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible across the globe. It publishes over 2,500 books a year for distribution in more than 200 countries. Cambridge Journals publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide range of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of research available today. For more information, visit http://journals.cambridge.org.