We conduct a study in which subjects trade stocks in an experimental market while we measure their brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging. All of the subjects trade in a suboptimal way. We use the neural data to test a “realization utility” explanation for their behavior....

Portfolio optimization has been a central problem in finance, often approached with two steps: calibrating the parameters and then solving an optimization problem. Yet, the two-step procedure sometimes encounter the ``error maximization'' problem where inaccuracy in parameter estimation...

Choosing the appropriate risk criterion has always been one of the main challenges for financial and economic analysts. The goal of this research is to optimize the average portfolio using a multi-layer neural network. In this research, a new model of multilayer neural network has been...