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We explore the various arguments for and against the recommendation that younger households should invest a larger share of their pension wealth in risky assets. The ability of young agents to compensate their financial losses by saving more during their career provides the strongest argument in...
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We explore the various arguments for and against the recommendation that younger households should invest a larger share of their pension wealth in risky assets. The ability of young agents to compensate their financial losses by saving more during their career provides the strongest argument in...
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We explore the various arguments for and against the recommendation that younger households should invest a larger share of their pension wealth in risky assets. The ability of young agents to compensate their financial losses by saving more during their career provides the strongest argument in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261134
, it turns out that bonds, equities and bills returns are actually predictable. This feature implies that the investment … conditional volatility across investment horizons. The results reveal the same kind of horizon effect as the one found in recent … returns with respect to bills and bonds returns decreases as the investment horizon grows. They suggest that long …
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, it turns out that bonds, equities and bills returns are actually predictable. This feature implies that the investment … conditional volatility across investment horizons. The results reveal the same kind of horizon effect as the one found in recent … returns with respect to bills and bonds returns decreases as the investment horizon grows. They suggest that long …
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We propose a new decision criterion under risk in which people extract both utility from anticipatory feelings ex ante and disutility from disappointment ex post. The decision maker chooses his degree of optimism, given that more optimism raises both the utility of ex ante feelings and the risk...
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Human beings want to believe that good outcomes in the future are more likely, but also want to make good decisions that increase average outcomes in the future. We consider a general equilibrium model with complete markets and show that when investors hold beliefs that optimally balance these...
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