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Strategic investment, industry concentration and the cross section of returns

Bustamante, Maria Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper provides an alternative real options framework to assess how firms' strategic interaction under imperfect competition a¤ects the industrial dynamics of investment, concentration, and expected returns. When firms have similar production technologies, the cross sectional variation in...

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Asset Pricing with Uncertain Betas: A Long-Term Perspective

Gollier, Christian - CESifo - 2013

How should one evaluate investment projects whose CCAPM betas are uncertain? This question is particularly crucial for projects yielding long-lasting impacts on the economy, as is the case for example for many green investments. We define the notion of a certainty equivalent beta. We show that...

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Rational trader risk

Kondor, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Allowing for a richer information structure than usual, we show that rational traders’ calculation with short-term price fluctuations may heavily influence their behaviour even if the interim price is not influenced by non-rational agents i.e. there is no noise trader risk. Instead, traders...

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Ambiguïté, comportements et marchés financiers.

Jeleva, Meglena; Tallon, Jean-Marc - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2014

Nous proposons une revue de la littérature récente centrée sur les effets de l'ambiguïté (ou incertitude non probabilisée) sur les comportements des acteurs sur les marchés financiers et sur le fonctionnement de ces derniers. Nous exposons les mécanismes théoriques de choix de...

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Evaluation of Long-Dated Investments under Uncertain Growth Trend, Volatility and Catastrophes

Gollier, Christian - CESifo - 2012

Because of the uncertainty about how to model the growth process of our economy, there is still much confusion about which discount rates should be used to evaluate actions having long-lasting impacts, as in the contexts of climate change, social security reforms or large public infrastructures...

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Portfolio choice beyond the traditional approach

Penaranda, Francisco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper surveys asset allocation methods that extend the traditional approach. An important feature of the traditional approach is that measures the risk and return tradeoff in terms of mean and variance of final wealth. However, there are also other important features that are not always...

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The international diversification puzzle is not worse than you think

Julliard, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper offers two main contributions. First, it shows how the Baxter and Jermann (1997) claim that, once we consider human capital risk, the international diversification puzzle is worse than we think, is based on an econometric misspecification rejected by the data. Second, it outlines how,...

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Rational asset pricing implications from realistic trading frictions

Zigrand, Jean-Pierre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

it is shown that arbitrage opportunities occur which could not have occured in a standard model. A certain and precise … degree of informativeness of prices to the traders is lost because the decision making process becomes endogenously segmented … and decentralized within the same decision making entity (distinct "trading desks"). It is shown that, compared to the …

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Optimal expectations

Brunnermeier, Markus K.; Parker, Jonathan A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

the other hand, expectations that are biased towards optimism worsen decision making, leading to poorer realized outcomes …

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Arbitrage and equilibrium with portofolio constraints.

Cornet, Bernard; Gopalan, Ramu - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009

back to Cass (1984, 2006) in the unconstrained case, we seek to isolate arbitrage-free asset prices that are aloso quasi … aggregate arbitrage-free asset prices, i.e., for which there is no arbitrage in the space of marketed portfolios. Our main …

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