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's composite preferences for risk tolerance, ambiguity aversion and optimism. Investors rationalize (IR)rational expected utilities …
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This paper addresses the question of optimal currency exposure for a risk-and-ambiguity-avers international investor. A …
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risk, is a rational strategy for ambiguity-averse individuals, who have an incentive to hedge the ambiguity in the base …
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an increase in ambiguity is associated with increased investor activity. It also leads to a reduction in risk …
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Epstein and Schneider (2007) develop a framework of learning under ambiguity, generalizing maxmin preferences of Gilboa and Schmeidler (1989) to intertemporal settings. The specific belief dynamics in Epstein and Schneider (2007) rely on the rejection of initial priors that have become...
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which, compared with the risk-adjusted cost of capital, correctly signals wealth creation. For choosing between two mutually … exclusive projects, we derive an incremental AROI and an incremental risk-adjusted cost of capital, by means of which two … unequal-risk projects can be correctly compared. Iterating the incremental procedure, we show that the AROI approach correctly …
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We construct a real options model in which a regime change is expected at a pre-determined future time and study the effects of regime uncertainty on a firm's strategic investment decision, taking into consideration the remaining time to the regime change and the probability of each regime...
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investors, ambiguity aversion generates strong home bias in equity holdings, regardless of beliefs in the CAPM or risk aversion …
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In response to the unprecedented uncertain rare events of the last decade, we derive an optimal portfolio choice problem in a semi-closed form by integrating price diffusion ambiguity, volatility diffusion ambiguity, and jump ambiguity occurring in the traditional stock market and the...
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We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion … may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA … their risk aversion parameter invest less in risky assets than wealthy investors with identical risk aversion uncertainty …
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