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We relate time-varying aggregate ambiguity (V-VSTOXX) to individual investor trading. We use the trading records of more than 100,000 individual investors from a large German online brokerage from March 2010 to December 2015. We find that an increase in ambiguity is associated with increased...
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Does economic policy uncertainty affect household stockholding? To answer this question we create a novel measure of … household exposure to economic policy uncertainty news by combining survey information on the hours a household spends in … more exposure to economic policy uncertainty news are less likely to invest in stocks directly or through mutual funds …
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This paper studies asymmetric profitability of the momentum trading strategy. When investors face Knightian uncertainty … increases with the level of market and idiosyncratic uncertainty relating to the fundamental value of stocks. We provide a model …
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expected cardinal utility is equivalent to maximizing the probability to meet a (uncertain) goal. It follows that the … may violate those dictated by the rational expected utility. From the point of view of real financial markets … couples sound axiomatic fundamentals with a user-friendly language. According to the benchmarking modelling, to maximizing the …
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We consider an investor who faces parameter uncertainty in a continuous-time financial market. We model the investor …'s preference by a power utility function leading to constant relative risk aversion. We show that the loss in expected utility is …
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I investigate a dynamic life-cycle strategic asset allocation and consumption problem under model uncertainty, where … uncertainty aversion parameter, which measures the investor's preference for robustness using econometric theory. I derive a … closed-form solution for a robust investor characterized by min-max utility preference to insure against the worst case …
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Combining brokerage records and matching monthly survey measurements of a sample of individual investors from the Netherlands for the period April 2008 through March 2009, we examine how individual investors update their beliefs (return expectations and risk perceptions) and preferences (risk...
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. The latter involves decisions under ambiguity, decisions under risk, decisions after gaining experience and decisions … after receiving outcome information on previous decisions. We find that in all decisions risk taking can be predicted by …
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Does economic policy uncertainty affect household stockholding? To answer this question we create a novel measure of … household exposure to economic policy uncertainty news by combining survey information on the hours a household spends in … a higher exposure to economic policy uncertainty news are less likely to invest in stocks held directly or through …
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I investigate a dynamic life-cycle strategic asset allocation and consumption problem under model uncertainty, where … uncertainty aversion parameter, which measures the investor's preference for robustness using econometric theory. I derive a … closed-form solution for a robust investor characterized by min-max utility preference to insure against the worst case …
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