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Momentum Trading Through Reference Dependent Preferences

Authors: Sean Crockett;

Momentum Trading Through Reference Dependent Preferences

Abstract

The endowment eect is a well-known behavioral regularity in which a person is less likely to trade a good when he is endowed with it. In their generalization of prospect theory to consumption bundles with multiple attributes, Tversky and Kahneman [1991] imply the endowment eect as a consequence of loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity in gains. It has since frequently been presumed that this form of reference dependent preferences will inhibit trade. However, in this paper it is demonstrated that loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity in gains also imply a dynamic momentum trading eect that increases exchange, so the net eect of such preferences on trading volume is ambiguous. In fact, the momentum trading eect is shown to completely cancel out the endowment eect in an important class of examples.

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