Golubev, Yuri (contributor); Härdle, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
by von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944) via a concave utility function, is considered to be a cornerstone of classical … market utility functions are convex. In this paper we have constructed a test to verify uncertainty about the concavity of … agents' utility function by testing the monotonicity of empirical pricing kernels (EPKs). A monotone decreasing EPK …