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Yesterday's Heroes : Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking
Cheng, Ing-Haw - 2010
We study the relationship between compensation and risk-taking among finance firms using a neglected insight from principal-agent contracting with hidden action and risk-averse agents. If the sensitivity of pay to stock price or slope does not vary with stock price volatility, then total...
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Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility
Guerrieri, Veronica - 2009
We propose a model where investors hire fund managers to invest either in risky bonds or in riskless assets. Some … managers have superior information on the default probability. Looking at the past performance, investors update beliefs on … their managers and make firing decisions. This leads to career concerns which affect investment decisions, generating a …
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Execution Risk
Engle, Robert - 2006
Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the...
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Investor Behavior and the Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans - The Importance of Plan Design
Liang, Nellie - 2002
Using panel data for nearly 1,000 companies during 1991 to 2000, this paper documents that the average share of participant's discretionary 401(k) contributions in company stock was almost 20 percent, and then relates this share to plan design features and firm financial characteristics. We find...
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Implications of dynamic trading for insurance markets
Penalva, José (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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A subsampling approach to estimating the distribution of diversing statistics with application to assessing financial market risks
Bertail, Patrice (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Country Portfolios
Kraay, Aart - 2000
How do countries hold their financial wealth? We construct a new database of countries' claims on capital located at home and abroad, and international borrowing and lending, covering 68 countries from 1966 to 1997. We find that a small amount of capital flows from rich countries to poor...
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Why Stocks May Disappoint
Ang, Andrew - 2000
Recently much progress has been made in developing optimal portfolio choice models accomodating time-varying opportunity sets, but unless investors are unreasonably risk averse, optimal holdings include unreasonably large equity positions. One reason is that most studies assume investors behave...
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Trading Volume : Definitions, Data Analysis, and Implications of Portfolio Theory
Lo, Andrew W. - 2000
We examine the implications of portfolio theory for the cross-sectional behavior of equity trading volume. Two …
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Nonparametric Risk Management and Implied Risk Aversion
Ait-Sahalia, Yacine - 2000
Typical value-at-risk (VAR) calculations involve the probabilities of extreme dollar losses, based on the statistical distributions of market prices. Such quantities do not account for the fact that the same dollar loss can have two very different economic valuations, depending on business...
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