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Richer and healthier agents tend to hold riskier portfolios and spend proportionally less on health expenditures. Potential explanations include health and wealth e ffects on preferences, expected longevity or disposable total wealth. Using HRS data, we perform a structural estimation of a...
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The paper investigates the relationship between the investment holding horizon and liquidity. I confirm and expand … investment decisions, which is an extension of the earlier findings of Teo (2011) for hedge funds …
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We consider portfolio selection under nonparametric alpha-maxmin ambiguity in the neighbourhood of a reference distribution. We show strict concavity of the portfolio problem under ambiguity aversion.Implied demand functions are nondifferentiable, resemble observed bid-ask spreads, and are...
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Institutional investors in equities tend to follow well-defined investment strategies, often based on factors such as … flows between investment strategies on the cross-section of their performance. We find that the correlation between factor …
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We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm …'s marginal financing decision and its effects on corporate investment. We show that firms with more growth options, higher … investment. We test these predictions using a sample of U.S. firms and present new evidence that supports our theory …
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We study whether, how, and why the investment of a firm depends on the investment of other firms in the same product … complementarity of investment among product market peers, holding across a large majority of sectors. Peer effects are stronger in … information. Product market peer effects in investment could amplify shocks in production networks …
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I introduce dynamic option trading and non-linear views into the classical portfolio selection problem. The optimal dynamic option portfolio is characterized explicitly in terms of its expected sensitivities (Greeks) and the role of the mean-variance effi cient portfolio is played by the "Greek...
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We introduce a model for portfolio selection with an extendable investment universe where the agent faces a trade …-off between exploiting existing and exploring for new investment opportunities. An agent with mean-variance preferences starts … with an existing investment universe consisting of a risk-free and a number of risky assets. However, rather than being …
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We develop a dynamic model of corporate investment and financing decisions in which corporate insiders have superior … asymmetric information induces firms with good prospects to speed up investment, leading to a significant erosion of the option … hierarchy or pecking order over securities. Finally, we generate a rich set of testable implications relating firms' investment …
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The optimal investment-dividend policy of a financially constrained firm whose earnings are subject to additive shocks …
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