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This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to … evidence against Sharpe-Lintner CAPM is found mainly during the recent financial crisis. Furthermore, a strong negative … during episodes of market inefficiencies. -- CAPM ; testing for alpha ; market efficiency ; long/short equity returns ; large …
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although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …
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Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...
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, beyond differences in risk-taking, innate ability, labor market outcomes, or scale effects, is the enhanced ability of …
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This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome …/or extra labor effort. We find strong evidence that ex-post access to labor opportunities reduces ex-ante risk willingness … while access to tax evasion has no effect on risk behavior. We discuss possible explanations for this result based on the …
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this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …
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households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a … risk, and is unique in recovering for, any given risky asset class, the shares that are reallocated to a safer asset … category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from …
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.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a … burden of MDs. Specifically, a 10 µg/m3 daily increase in PM2.5 is associated with a 3.55% increase in the risk of HAs for …
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We combine a customized survey and randomized controlled trial (RCT) to study the effect of higher-order beliefs on U.S. retail investors' portfolio allocations. We find that investors' higher-order beliefs about stock market returns are correlated with but distinct from their first-order...
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We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social Diagnosis - that contains rare indicators such as job...
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