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In this paper, I develop a model in which risk-averse investors possess private information regarding both a stock …'s expected payoff and its risk. These investors trade in the stock and a derivative whose payoff is driven by the stock's risk …. In equilibrium, the derivative is used to speculate on the stock's risk and to hedge against adverse fluctuations in the …
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The behavioural finance literature attributes the persistent market misvaluation observed in real data to the presence of deviations from rational thinking of the actors involved. Cognitive biases and the use of simple heuristics can be described using expected utility maximising agents that...
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In this paper I study the relationship between rationality and asset prices when agents have heterogeneous and incorrect beliefs about future events. Using the fully rational pricing as a benchmark, I show that when agents behave according to the Subjective Generalized Kelly rule (Bottazzi et...
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This paper studies market selection in an Arrow-Debreu economy with complete markets where agents learn over misspecified models. Under model misspecification, standard Bayesian learning loses its formal justification and biased learning processes may provide a selection advantage. However,...
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traced back to certain developments in economic theory since the so-called "marginalist revolution", which enabled the …
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Futures the system achieved mostly a loss. We attribute this (in the latter two cases) to the effect of a rising market risk …
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We study the effect of country-specific noise on stock price comovement. Using a sample of dual-listed stocks, we show that the effect persists over time for some largest A-shares traded in China, but diminishes quickly for their H-shares traded in Hong Kong. We then examine whether the noise...
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Greed has been shown to be an important economic motive. Both the popular press as well as scientific papers have mentioned questionable practices by greedy bankers and investors as one of the root causes of the 2008 global financial crisis. In spite of these suggestions, there is as of yet no...
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-horizon investor with constant relative risk aversion preferences. In a horse race in which models are not considered in their … individuality but instead as an overal class, we find that a power utility investor with a constant coefficient of relative risk …
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