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Many tests of asset pricing models address only the pricing predictions - but these pricing predictions rest on portfolio choice predictions which seem obviously wrong. This paper suggests a new approach to asset pricing and portfolio choices, based on unobserved heterogeneity. This approach...
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. This existence of disposition effect is also supported by another experiment session showing that there is a holding time …
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principles of Expected Utility Theory (EUT) and of Portfolio Selection Theory (PST). The experiment is performed with individuals … providing additional risk that is not compensated by additional expected value. We find that the results of our experiment are …
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Growing evidence shows that biological factors affect individual financial decisions that could be reflected in financial markets. Testosterone, a chemical messenger especially influential in male physiology, has been shown to affect economic decision making, and is taken as a...
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We study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for … prices are close to intrinsic value, the effect of incentives is mild. However under conditions in which markets are prone to … bubble, mispricing is greatly exacerbated by incentives. Even in experienced markets, prices climb to levels clearly …
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We report a portfolio-choice experiment that enables us to estimate parametric models of ambiguity aversion at the …
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We develop a new theory of delegated investment whereby managers compete in terms of composition of the portfolios they … across states. An experiment involving about one hundred participants over six weeks broadly supports the theoretical … portfolios closer to Arrow-Debreu securities (as in the theory) and who had better recent performance (an observation unrelated …
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purpose, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants decide on the composition of an asset portfolio in different … straight-line depreciation can increase the willingness to invest as hypothesized by theory. Additionally, we are able to …
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Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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Financial product ratings are intended to summarize relevant information in a manner that assists in decision-making. Ratings, however, have the potential to be either helpful or harmful. Ratings are often assigned within categories; ratings across categories then may or may not be comparable....
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