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Risk aversion under preference uncertainty

Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Siegmann, Arjen - Center for Financial Studies - 2010

We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility functions. We illustrate the consequences of this...

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Household economic decisions under the shadow of terrorism

Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - Center for Financial Studies - 2009

We investigate, using the 2002 US Health and Retirement Study, the factors influencing individuals' insecurity and expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find that females, the religiously devout, those...

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Advertising arbitrage

Kovbasyuk, Sergei; Pagano, Marco - Center for Financial Studies - 2014

Speculators often advertise arbitrage opportunities in order to persuade other investors and thus accelerate the correction of mispricing. We show that in order to minimize the risk and the cost of arbitrage an investor who identifies several mispriced assets optimally advertises only one of...

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Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding

Binswanger, Johannes; Salm, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the relationship between subjective probabilities of future stock market returns and decisions about stockholding. Specifically, we examine whether acting upon subjective probabilities is confined to individuals with high cognitive skills. We explore this question using data from...

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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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A dynamic programming approach to constrained portfolios

Kraft, Holger; Steffensen, Mogens - Center for Financial Studies - 2012

This paper studies constrained portfolio problems that may involve constraints on the probability or the expected size of a shortfall of wealth or consumption. Our first contribution is that we solve the problems by dynamic programming, which is in contrast to the existing literature that...

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Performance analysis of international mutual funds incorporating market frictions

ter Horst, Jenke; Nijman, Theo; de Roon, F.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

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Decision Making in the Pension Fund Board Room : An Experiment with Dutch Pension Fund Trustees

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, K.; Koedijk, C.G.; Slager, A.M.H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We ask how pension fund trustees deal with the booms and busts that funds encounter, and to what extent the decisions of pension fund trustees are affected by behavioral biases. We examine these issues by using a vignette-method field experiment among Dutch pension fund trustees. We find that...

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Determinants of bank lending performance

Ewert, Ralf; Schenk, Gerald - Center for Financial Studies - 1998

During the last years the lending business has come under considerable competitive pressure and bank managers often express concern regarding its profitability vis-a-vis other activities. This paper tries to empirically identify factors that are able to explain the financial performance of bank...

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Finance and Growth for Microenterprises : Evidence from Rural China

Beck, Thorsten; Lu, L.; Yang, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: Using a survey dataset of Chinese rural households, we find that access to external finance is positively … associated with the decision to become entrepreneur, the initial investment for microenterprises and the use of external finance …. Also, we find that the use of informal finance is positively associated with sales growth of microenterprises with …

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