The relationship between property size and property investment yield is an interesting issue in the real estate market. Previous studies usually use the mean-variance criterion to compare the return-risk profiles of the yields of different property sizes in the US. However, this criterion has a...

This paper propose a new panel stochastic dominance (SD) test-PDD test, the asymptotic properties are derived, which extends Davidson and Duclos (DD) SD test to a panel context. The PDD test also contributes to settle one of the demerits while working with financial derivatives time series: that...

Leshno and Levy (2002) introduce the concept of the first and second order of almost stochastic dominance (ASD) for most decision makers. There are many studies investigating the properties of this concept. Many empirical applications are also conducted based on it. However, there is no formal...

This paper documents a sharp reversal of individual investors' tendency to delegate their equity investments between 2007 and 2011, primarily based on a representative sample of 40,000 self-directed clients at one of Germany's largest retail banks. At the beginning of 2007, the typical sample...

Prospect theory suggests that risk seeking can occur when investors face losses and thus an S-shaped utility function can be useful in explaining investor behavior. Using stochastic dominance procedures, Post and Levy (2005) find evidence of reverse S-shaped utility functions. This is consistent...

We study rankings of completely and partially diversified portfolios and also of specialized assets when investors follow so-called Markowitz preferences. It turns out that diversification strategies for Markowitz investors are more complex than in the case of risk-averse and risk-inclined...

Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...

In this paper we first extend the theory of almost stochastic dominance (ASD) (for risk averters) to include the ASD for risk-seeking investors. We then study the relationship between ASD for risk seekers and ASD for risk averters. Recently, Tsetlin, et al. (2015) develop the theory of...

In this paper, we first develop some properties to state the relationships among central moments, stochastic dominance (SD), risk-seeking stochastic dominance (RSD), and integrals for the general utility functions and the polynomial utility functions of both risk averters and risk seekers. We...

Current integration and co-movement among international stock markets has been boosted by increased globalization of the world economy, and profit-chasing capital surfing across borders. With a reputation as the fastest growing economy in the world, China's stock market has continued gaining...