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Obfuscation, learning, and the evolution of investor sophistication
Carlin, Bruce Ian; Manso, Gustavo - 2009
We develop a dynamic model to study the interaction between obfuscation and investor sophistication in retail financial markets. Taking into account different learning mechanisms within the investor population, we characterize the optimal timing of obfuscation for a profit-maximizing monopolist....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971343
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Optimal strategies for ESG portfolios
Alessandrini, Fabio; Jondeau, Eric - 2020
In a previous paper (Alessandrini and Jondeau, 2020), we demonstrate that in the last decade, investing according to screening based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria would have allowed investors to considerably improve the ESG quality of their portfolio without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219149
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Portfolio selection with exploration of new investment opportunities
Sornette, Didier; Strub, Moris Simon - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271124
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Strategic asset allocation, asset price dynamics, and the business cycle
Jaccard, Ivan (contributor) - 2007
The main contribution of this work is to provide a dynamic general equilibrium model of asset allocation, allowing to reconcile economic theory with several puzzling contradictions recently pointed out in the literature: (i) the asset allocation puzzle, (ii) the observed timevariation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003550833
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Responsible institutional investing around the world
Gibson, Rajna; Glossner, Simon; Krüger, Philipp; … - 2020 - This version: December 2019
We explore a novel survey on responsible investing by institutional investors around the world and match it to archival data on their equity portfolio holdings. We document that institutions that publicly commit to responsible investing exhibit better environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...
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Retail Investors’ Cryptocurrency Investments
Pursiainen, Vesa; Toczynski, Jan - 2022
We use transaction data gathered by a large fintech firm to study retail investors’ investments in cryptocurrencies. Crypto investors tend to be young, male, high-income, and live in wealthy urban areas with high levels of self-employment and low levels of altruism. Crypto investments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235716
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Are public and private asset returns and risks the same? : evidence from real estate data
Hoesli, Martin; Oikarinen, Elias - 2013
This article aims to investigate the similarity of public and private real estate returns and risks over the relatively long horizon using data for the U.S and the U.K. The results show evidence of a one-to-one relationship between publicly traded REIT performance and privately traded direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256953
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Response speeds of direct and securitized real estate to shocks in the fundamentals
Oikarinen, Elias; Hoesli, Martin; Serrano, Camilo - 2010
We use sector level REIT and transaction-based direct real estate data for the U.S. to provide a clearer understanding of the dynamic relations between public and private real estate returns. We exclude leverage from REIT returns to make the REIT data more comparable with the direct market data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008797757
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Volatility spillovers, asymmetry and extreme events in securitized real estate returns
Hoesli, Martin; Reka, Kustrim - 2010
This paper analyzes the relationships between local and global securitized real estate markets, but also between securitized real estate and common stock markets. First, the volatility transmissions across markets are examined using an asymmetric t-BEKK (Baba-Engle-Kraft-Kroner) specification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008797759
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A false sense of security : why U.S. banks diversify and does it help?
Gandhi, Priyank; Kiefer, Patrick Christian; Plazzi, Alberto - 2016
. This paper investigates whether diversification influences banks' investment (credit) policy and profitability. Diversified … banks appear to benefit from “coinsurance,” supply more credit, and seem more profitable. However, diversification does not … diversification may impact banks' credit supply and therefore the real economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518813