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This paper studies the wealth and pricing implications of loss aversion in the presence of arbitrageurs with Epstein …-Zin preferences. Loss aversion affects an investor's survival prospects mainly through its effect on the investor's portfolio holdings …. Loss-averse investors will be driven out of the market and do not affect long-run prices if their portfolio positions are …
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This paper considers a general-equilibrium model with loss-aversion in consumption and heterogeneity: there is a … discrete number of agents. Loss-aversion in consumption induces a kink in the pricing kernel and consequently, jumps in the … market price of risk, stock return, and volatility. An economy populated with only loss-averse agents produces one counter …
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We study the equilibrium implications of a multi-asset economy in which asset managers are subject to different benchmarks, and demonstrate how heterogeneous benchmarking generates a mechanism through which fundamental shocks propagate across assets. Fluctuations in asset managers' capital...
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Investors’ return on their portfolios, as proxied by the market, is a theoretically appealing but empirically unsuccessful asset pricing factor. In practice, many institutional investors choose to deviate substantially from the market portfolio. We propose a simple model in the spirit of...
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In 1995, Benartzi and Thaler introduced the concept myopic loss aversion to explain the equity premium puzzle. They …
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We study empirical mean-variance optimization when the portfolio weights are restricted to be direct functions of underlying stock characteristics such as value and momentum. The closed-form solution to the portfolio weights estimator shows that the portfolio problem in this case reduces to a...
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