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We employ two reward and risk measures, the Upper Partial Moment and the Lower Partial Moment, in order to maximize different value functions under the budget and the short-selling constraints. We find that agents seem to prefer small capitalization and high value stock portfolios (which are...
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Using trading data from a sports-wagering market, we estimate individuals' dynamic risk preferences within the prospect-theory paradigm. This market's experimental-like features facilitate preference estimation, and our long panel enables us to study whether preferences vary across individuals...
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Recent work in behavioral finance showed how investors' perceptions (i.e., return expectations, risk tolerance, and risk perception) affect hypothetical trading and risk-taking behavior. However, are such perceptions also capable of explaining actual trading and risk-taking behavior? To answer...
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/she gets her/his utility from the realized gains and losses. We try to explain the effect by incorporating ambiguity attitude … which varies depending on the reference point. We extend the smooth model of ambiguity by Klibanoff et al. (2005) to depend … dependent smooth model of ambiguity if the investor gets her/his utility from the realized gains and losses although we cannot …
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There has been considerable research into dynamic global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) strategies driven by simple measures of Valuation and Momentum applied to a baseline balanced portfolio of equities and fixed income (see Blitz and van Vliet 2008, Wang and Kochard 2011, Gnedenko and Yelnik...
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We study the asset allocation of an investor with prospect theory (PT) preferences. First, we solve analytically the two-asset problem of the PT investor for one risk-free and one risky asset and find that loss aversion and the reference return affect differently less ambitious investors and...
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We relate time-varying aggregate ambiguity (V-VSTOXX) to individual investor trading. We use the trading records of … an increase in ambiguity is associated with increased investor activity. It also leads to a reduction in risk …-taking which does not reverse over the following days. When ambiguity is high, the effect of sentiment looms larger. Survey …
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problem in a semi-closed form by integrating price diffusion ambiguity, volatility diffusion ambiguity, and jump ambiguity … conclusions in both markets: first, price diffusion and jump ambiguity mainly determine detection-error probability; second …, optimal choice is more significantly affected by price diffusion ambiguity than by jump ambiguity, and trivially affected by …
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The paper investigates the importance of probability weighting in financial decisions and examines the degree to which risk-taking behavior deviates from expected utility theory in the presence of probability weighting. A group of professional traders participates in an experiment, whose data...
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This study investigates the impact of sophistication on individual investors' risk and return expectations using a survey directed towards a random sample of individual investors in Sweden. Eleven measures that previous studies have found to be related to sophistication are elicited for the...
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