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self-directed online investors at a UK bank. The survey asks for return expectations, risk expectations, and risk tolerance …. The exception is a positive effect of increases in return expectation on buying activity. Portfolio risk levels and … changes are more systematically related to return and risk expectations. In line with financial theory, risk taking increases …
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between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the multiple priors framework to beliefs about the probability of …
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causal effects of those reforms on bank risk. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we show that banks’ financial … corporate governance. We also find that the effects of legal and governance reforms on bank risk may critically depend on the … progress of banking reforms. A further examination of alternative risk measures reveals that the increases in financial …
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Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between Canadian banks’ capital buffer and business cycles. The adoption of Basel Accords and the balance sheet leverage cap...
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, regardless of banks’ fundamentals. We show that changes in expectations about bank and borrower fundamentals change the risk …
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the resulting consumption allocations offer less risk-sharing opportunities to risk-averse consumers than tailor …
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We study portfolio selection under Conditional Value-at-Risk and, as its natural extension, spectral risk measures, and …-spectral risk preferences for the choice of optimal portfolios only implicitly, we explicitly model these preferences in the form of … a so-called spectral utility function. Within this more general framework, spectral risk measures tend towards corner …
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This paper proposes a methodology to analyse the risk and return of large loan portfolios in a joint setting. I propose … in closed form. I investigate the validity of mean–variance analysis with a value at risk constraint and study its …
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We use survey data from a sample of UK households to analyse the relationship between financial literacy and consumer credit portfolios. We show that individuals who borrow on consumer credit exhibit worse financial literacy than those who do not. Borrowers with poor financial literacy hold...
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We determine the events that cause large shocks in volatility of the DJIA index over the period 1928–2013, using a new semi-parametric test based on conditional heteroscedasticity models. We find that these large shocks can be associated with particular events (financial crashes, elections,...
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