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This paper examines the relation between equity portfolio diversification choices of individual investors and stock … diversification clientele based portfolios can explain cross-sectional variations in returns for a considerable subset of stocks. The … diversification choices of individual investors influence stock returns …
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This paper presents three definitions of time diversification and analyzes their implications for investment horizons …. Using decision quality criteria and methodology, we question standard advice. In analyzing time diversification with a … minimum of assumptions, we answer two main questions: how to rigorously define time diversification and what conditions favor …
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Disagreement about stock valuation, combined with short-sales constraints, can increase asset prices. We build a model showing that, so long as investor beliefs are not perfectly correlated, investors will disagree less about the value of a conglomerate than about each of its individual...
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We develop and implement methods for determining whether introducing new securities or relaxing investment constraints improves the investment opportunity set for prospect investors. We formulate a new testing procedure for prospect spanning for two nested portfolio sets based on subsampling and...
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. In the longer run, however, a trade-off between diversification and climate action emerges. We derive the optimal carbon …
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documented that diversification among risky assets in a particular country leads to risk reduction, but the potential gains are … limited due to high correlations within an economy. Therefore, international portfolio diversification, primarily in stocks … contracts to the international dimension. The findings lend support to the arguments in favor of international diversification …
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In this paper we consider the question of how to improve the efficacy of strategies designed to capture factor premiums in equity markets and, in particular, from the value, quality, low risk and momentum factors. We consider a number of portfolio construction approaches designed to capture...
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diversification advantages offered by equity market of Pakistan through comparing its performance to performances in other markets and … cost as liquidity measures. Findings - Pakistan's equity offers substantial diversification benefits if added to developed …
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I develop a stochastic growth model with production where there is a hidden state governing productivity growth regimes, and the hidden state evolves according to a Markov chain. Economic agents learn about the hidden state and display ambiguity aversion in the spirit of Klibanoff et al. (2005)....
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I study the effects of risk and ambiguity (Knightian uncertainty) on optimal portfolios and equilibrium asset prices when investors receive information that is difficult to link to fundamentals. I show that the desire of investors to hedge ambiguity leads to portfolio inertia and excess...
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