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We study the investment behaviour of a producer maximizing the present value of his firm over an infinite time horizon … capital, are assumed known and held fixed. We find the optimal investment behaviour in the form of a feed-back function …
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Bottom-up optimization models neglect the inclusion of investment behavior We introduce three investor types that … differ in their investment cost specifications, financing costs, and discounting. This leads to a substantially different … accounting for more differentiated picture of electricity market investment with heterogeneous investor types can provide a …
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stability properties of investment strategies associated with the Kelly rule. Our approach to the study of the wealth dynamics … of investment strategies is inspired by Darwinian ideas on selection and mutation. The goal of this research is to … develop an evolutionary framework for practical investment advice …
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The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Strategy (KCGIS) is to maximize the expected utility of nal wealth with a … properties as well such as extremely large bets for short term favorable investment situations because the Arrow-Pratt risk … to Fidelity Investments, a major Boston investment fi rm close to and influenced by Samuelson at MIT. I agree that these …
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by actions of the investor. Using the classical filtering theory, we reduce this problem with partial information to one … with full information and solve it for logarithmic and power utility functions. In particular, we apply control theory for …
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Diversification has been long considered an essential part of investing for the long term. Our paper aims to look further on portfolio diversification and how asset allocation can be optimized. We suggest that the selection of investments in a portfolio should be based on how the market behaves...
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We investigate two alternative explanations why men may hold more stocks than women. Apart from a gender difference in risk aversion, gender differences in either optimism or in perceived risk of financial markets might cause men to hold more risky assets. Our results show that men tend to be...
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This paper identifies a clear tradeoff between tracking error — performance differences relative to a targeted asset allocation — and turnover—a proxy for rebalancing costs — that can help guide investors’ rebalancing choices. We find that calendar-based approaches, while convenient,...
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This paper discusses multi-period investment processes under parameter uncer- tainty and criteria to maximize … exponential growth. Applying an information- theoretical argument, we find, for a Bernoulli process, the least biased investment …
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In this paper we formulate a continuous-time behavioral (a la cumulative prospect theory) portfolio selection model …
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