The disposition effect is one of the representative puzzles observed in the financial market. Several theoretical explanations for the disposition effect have been tried, but we cannot yet say that they have been successful. The seminal paper of Barberis and Xiong (2009), which tries to explain...

This study examines the ways in which the heterogeneity of elevation or curvature in probability weighting affects investors’ market participation and the equity premium. We analyze the rank-dependence utility with the generalized Wang transform (GWT) as an inverse S-shaped weighting function....