This study investigates the bias adjustment for mean–variance efficient portfolio frontiers due to population mean and variance estimation error in Taiwan stock market. Although Siegel and Woodgate (2007; Management Science, 53, 1005–1015) and Kan and Smith (2008; Management Science, 54,...

This study develops a truncated Gram–Charlier expansion (TGCE) option pricing model, which simultaneously considers the skewness, kurtosis and essentially truncated (bounded) interval in the underlying asset return. In addition to TGCE, a truncated Black–Scholes model is proposed also. The...

This study analyzes individual portfolio selection in the presence of background risk. Under the expected utility framework, this study determines necessary and sufficient conditions of utility functions for two-fund monetary separation with independently additive and multiplicative background...