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more general expected utility maximization in continuous time, the assumptions of constant relative risk aversion and joint … discrete time constant relative risk aversion and joint normally distributed asset return assessments are sufficient to yield …
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We develop a simple rational model of active portfolio management that provides a natural benchmark against which to evaluate observed relationship between returns and fund flows. We show that many effects widely regarded as anomalous are consistent with this simple explanation. In the model,...
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When all financial assets have risky returns, the mean-variance portfolio model is potentially subject to two types of bliss points. One bliss point arises when a von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function displays negative marginal utility for sufficiently large end-of-period wealth, such as in...
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it is found that symmetry implies a particular type of risk averse portfolio behavior. The symmetry restriction is also …
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This paper develops behavioral relationships explaining investors' demands for long-term bonds, using three alternative hypotheses about investors' expectations of future bond prices (yields). The results, based on U.S. 'data for six major categories of bond market investors, consistently...
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The non-tradability of human capital is often cited for the failure of traditional asset pricing theory to explain … the form of labor contracts). We derive wages endogenously as part of a dynamic equilibrium in a production economy. Risk … facilitate this risk sharing because it is there that firms offload the labor market risk they assumed from workers. In effect …
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