Suppose funds managers are differentiated by intrinsic or innate ability at some origin point in time. Using formal theoretical propositions, and with risk continuously increasing, the continuum of assets available to funds managers is endogenously segmented into continuums of `safe', and...

Whereas risk tolerance is an important parameter of financial intermediation in markets for mutual funds, formal theoretical predictions show funds managers' choices of portfolio risk tolerances can be induced in entirety by wealth considerations. An important implication of this finding is the...

In this paper, we find evidence of reversals in relative exit performance between the "short" and "long-run" in the VC market, with the short-run defined to be the first five years of business, and the long-run, the sixth year of business onwards. Using proxies for the risk of venture capital...

This study finds crude oil prices (`oil prices') affect market or portfolio expected returns on the NSE only via inducement of changes to risk aversion parameters of the `representative agent' who has exposure to both stock market return volatility risk and oil price risk. I refer to this effect...

This study provides formal theoretical evidence for nesting of probability measures that are generated by risk aversion in probability measures that are generated by risk seeking preferences. In presence of highlighted nesting, conditional on independent parameterization of expectations...

Typically, models of stock prices or returns assume homogeneity of risk preference parameters. This study shows modeling of IPO prices necessarily is with reference to the distribution of risk preference parameters that already are represented in secondary equity markets. Modeling of stock...

Let α denote risk preference parameters, such that α→0 (respectively, α→Z0) implies tatonnement towards risk seeking preferences (respectively, risk aversion). Suppose either of two agents, i and j enter into a market with risk preference parameters, α₀(i)=0.1 or α₀(j)=Z-0.1. With T...