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In a repeated market for short-lived assets, we investigate wealth-driven selection among investment rules that depend … be a common phenomenon generated by two different mechanisms. Firstly, conditioning investment decisions on endogenous … market variables implies that the relative performance of investment rules, in terms of average growth rates, may be …
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As the introduction of financial transaction taxes is increasingly discussed by political leaders we explore possible consequences such taxes could have on markets. Here we examine how “stylized facts”, namely fat tails and volatility clustering, are affected by different tax regimes in...
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This paper shows that a seemingly simple assumption – that agents use a rolling planning horizon – can reconcile the puzzling long run price dynamics of exhaustible resources such as oil, gas and metals. A rolling horizon has the effect of removing the scarcity consideration of resource...
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perishable good. The experiment is designed to study the price–quantity setting behavior of subjects acting as firms in …
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We present a model in which an outside bank and a default penalty support the value of fiat money, and experimental evidence that the theoretical predictions about the behavior of such economies, based on the Fisher-condition, work reasonably well in a laboratory setting. The import of this...
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studied simple heuristics. Using a test for rational expectations that allows heterogeneity of expectations we find that we …
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costly. In a laboratory experiment we implement the Calvo (1983) microfoundations of the Phillips curve. Our hypotheses are …
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compelling challenge in investment, any underlying distribution can be always well approximated by utilizing a mixture …
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parameter and two scale parameters. Risk preference on scale parameter is non-monotonic and risk averse investors prefer larger …. Numerical cases under constant absolute risk aversion are analyzed with its closed-form certainty equivalent. An asset pricing …
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To value non-transferable non-hedgeable (NTNH) contingent claims and price executive stock options (ESOs), we use a replication argument to translate portfolios with NTNH derivatives into portfolios of primary assets (only) with stochastic portfolio constraints. By identifying stochastic...
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