Showing 1 - 10 of 87
investors, but hold for both. These findings are consistent with prospect theory and help explain the positive price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136421
We examine a simple measure of portfolio performance based on prospect theory, which captures not only risk and return …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114253
Financial well-being is distinct from income. Some people with high incomes suffer low financial well-being, as their incomes fall short of their aspirations. Such people feel propelled to reach their aspirations by taking risk and willing to bear losses. Conversely, some people with low incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083480
features with prospect theory, namely, overweighting of small probability events (and corresponding underweighting of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083577
experiment affects risk taking. We find some evidence of imitation of the risk taking behavior of others that is distinct from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084146
There is widespread evidence that monetary policy exerts asymmetric effects on output over contractions and expansions in economic activity, while price responses display no sizeable asymmetry. To rationalize these facts we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where households’ utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084378
characteristics of Kahneman and Tversky’s Prospect Theory. The main methodological innovations of this paper are firstly, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661640
Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213309
When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246606
Why were people so unprepared for the global financial crisis, the European debt crisis, and the Fukushima nuclear accident? To address this question, we study a model in which agents make state-contingent plans - think about actions in different contingencies - subject to the constraint that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351517