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paper is that a highly short-sighted investment horizon is required for the historical equity premium to be explained by … loss aversion, while reasonable values for disappointment aversion are found also for long investment horizons. So, stocks …
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-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …
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negotiation situations. We report the results of a laboratory experiment that was designed to isolate the effect of the curse of …
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This paper analyses the determinants of the natural rate of interest in a non-linear model where agents are uncertain over both future technology growth and the future course of monetary policy. I show that the real natural rate can be affected by sizable uncertainty premia, including premia...
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Prior laboratory experiments have studied general equilibrium economies constructed from "induced preferences" for artificial goods. We introduce new methods that allow us to study economies constructed instead from subjects' actual, "homegrown" preferences. Our subjects reveal their preferences...
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This research addresses whether geographic diversification provides benefits over industry diversification. In the absence of constraints, no empirical evidence is found to support the argument that country diversification is superior. With short-selling constraints, however, the geographic...
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We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standarddeviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …
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In this paper, we design an investment game which allows us to study the influence of selection when learning from … others. Using the theoretical study of selection neglect in Jehiel (2018) as a guide, we test (i) for the presence of … selection neglect in this investment context, and (ii) some comparative static predictions of the model. We find strong evidence …
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This paper focuses on the role of real exchange rate volatility as a driver of portfolio home bias, and in particular as an explanation for differences in home bias across financial assets. We present a Markowitz-type portfolio selection model in which real exchange rate volatility induces a...
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We study credible information transmission by a benevolent Central Bank. We consider two possibilities: direct revelation through an announcement, versus indirect information transmission through monetary policy. These two ways of transmitting information have very different consequences. Since...
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