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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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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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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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. This existence of disposition effect is also supported by another experiment session showing that there is a holding time …
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Prior laboratory experiments have studied general equilibrium economies constructed from \induced preferences" for artificial goods. We introduce new methods that allow us to study economies constructed instead from subjects' actual, \homegrown" preferences. Our subjects reveal their preferences...
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Prior laboratory experiments have studied general equilibrium economies constructed from "induced preferences" for artificial goods. We introduce new methods that allow us to study economies constructed instead from subjects' actual, "homegrown" preferences. Our subjects reveal their preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758295
investment behavior. In our experiment, subjects decide about investments into real-life mutual funds. We find that subjects …
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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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