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We propose a model of competitive attention based on two key premises: i) People have limited information processing capacities and ii) consideration sets are formed according to relative salience. The equilibrium predictions we obtain can help to understand, and connect, diverse empirical...
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We develop a method that allows one to compute incomplete-market equilibria routinely forMarkovian equilibria (when they exist). The main difficulty to be overcome arises from the setof state variables. There are, of course, exogenous state variables driving the economy but, in anincomplete...
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This paper studies whether and why algorithmic traders exhibit one of the most broadlydocumented behavioral puzzles - the disposition effect. We use trade data from the NASDAQ Copenhagen Stock Exchange merged with the weather data. We find that on average, the disposition effect for human...
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Why don't people buy annuities? Several explanations have been provided by the previous literature: large fraction of preannuitized wealth in retirees' portfolios; adverse selection; bequest motives; and medical expense uncertainty. This paper uses a quantitative model to assess the importance...
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perhaps there is exogenous variation in risk tolerance so that highly risk tolerant households engage in high-risk high …-return activities and the risk-lovers who are lucky constitute the rich A second possibility is that capital market imperfections a la … utility of anticipated bequests) implying that risk aversion declines as wealth rises The paper concludes that the overall …
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Long-run saving dynamics are a crucial component of consumption-saving behavior. This paper makes two contributions to the consumption literature. First, we exploit inheritance episodes to provide novel causal evidence on the long-run effects of a large financial windfall on saving behavior. For...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...
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investors. The tools will be a hedge against the risk of mitigation short squeeze occurring because investment is deferred …
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We propose and implement a procedure to optimally hedge climate change risk. First, we construct climate risk indices … climate risk hedge portfolios. The new mimicking portfolio approach is much more efficient than traditional sorting or maximum … delivering markedly higher and statistically significant alphas and betas with the climate risk indices. …
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Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded … long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment of liquidity risk is still under development.This paper provides an … overview on important aspects of market liquidity and its risk. We also survey existing models to integrate market liquidity …
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