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In this article we identify risk and return profiles of two types of investment guaranteesin unit-linked life insurance products: an interest rate guarantee and a lookbackguarantee. This is done by comparing guarantee costs and performance for thematurity payoff and by testing the investment...
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The Sharpe ratio is adequate for evaluating investment funds when the returns ofthose funds are normally distributed and the investor intends to place all his risky assetsinto just one investment fund. Hedge fund returns differ significantly from anormal distribution. For this reason, other...
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In this paper we experimentally test skewness seeking at the individuallevel. Several prospects that can be ordered with respect to the third-degreestochastic dominance (3SD) criterion are ranked by the participants of theexperiment. We find that the skewness of a distribution has a...
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This experimental study investigates whether individuals preferbounded rationality over rational choice theory when facing simpleinvestment tasks. First, participants state some personal parametersthat serve as an input to render a theoretical approach, namelysatisficing or optimality,...
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We experimentally investigate whether the satisficing approach isabsorbable, i.e., whether it still applies after participants become awareof it. In a setting where an investor decides between a riskless bondand either one or two risky assets, we familiarize participants with thesatisficing...
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The paper explores the applicability of the satisficing approach. Inparticular, we investigate whether basic principles of aspiration formationand satisficing behavior are transferable between similar situations.Individuals are sequentially confronted with two risky investmenttasks, a simple and...
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We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices.Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence...
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Die ökonomische Sinnhaftigkeit der Forderung nach schwacher Wertadditivität vonSicherheitsäquivalenten ist in Abhängigkeit vom jeweiligen Bewertungszweck zu diskutieren.Hierbei muss grundsätzlich zwischen der unternehmensexternen Bewertungssichtund der unternehmensinternen Steuerungssicht...
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We prove that for any incomplete market and any concave utilityfunction the marginal propensities to consume and to save are alwayspositive. Furthermore, we introduce a class of incomplete markets thatincludes almost all well known examples of market incompleteness infinance and macroeconomics....
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Portfolio choice and the implied asset pricing are usually derived assumingmaximization of expected utility. In this Paper, they are derived from risk-value models that generalize the Markowitz-model. We use a behaviourally-based risk measure with an endogenous or exogenous benchmark...
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