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Bellalah, Mondher; El Farissi, Inass - Université Paris-Dauphine

This paper presents a simple framework for the use of traditional capital budgeting models and the valuation of several … analysis extends the models in Bellalah (1999, 2001) for the valuation of real options within information uncertainty. We … present valuation models and simulations for the values of common real options in the presence of shadow costs of incomplete …

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High-Speed Natural Selection in Financial Markets with Large State Spaces

Fedyk, Yuriy; Walden, Johan - Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) - 2007

Recent research has suggested that natural selection in financial markets may be a very slow process, taking hundreds of years. We show in a general equilibrium model that it may be much faster in markets with large state spaces. In many cases, the time it takes to wipe out irrational investors...

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Hedging, Familiarity and Portfolio Choice

Massa, Massimo; Simonov, Andrei - Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) - 2004

We exploit the restrictions of intertemporal portfolio choice in the presence of non-financial income risk to design and implement tests of hedging that use the information contained in the actual portfolio of the investor. We use a unique dataset of Swedish investors with information broken...

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Simulated nonparametric estimation of dynamic models with applications to finance

Altissimo, Filippo; Mele, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper introduces a new class of parameter estimators for dynamic models, called Simulated Nonparametric Estimators (SNE). The SNE minimizes appropriate distances between nonparametric joint (or conditional) densities estimated from sample data and nonparametric joint (or conditional)...

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Ambiguity and the historical equity premium

Mukerji, Sujoy; Sheppard, Kevin; Collard, Fabrice; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

This paper assesses the quantitative impact of ambiguity on the historically observed financial asset returns and prices. The single agent, in a dynamic exchange economy, treats the conditional uncertainty about the consumption and dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's...

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