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Short-Term Institutions, Analyst Recommendations, and Mispricing: The Role of Higher-Order Beliefs
Discussions on the role of higher-order beliefs (investor beliefs about the beliefs of other investors) in financial markets can be traced back to Keynes’ (1936) comparison of the stock market to a beauty contest. Investors “are concerned,” he famously said, …