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literature, including loss aversion and liquidity constraints. In the existing literature, these two types of consumption … for the period 1953q1-2007q3, we show that evidence of either loss aversion or liquidity constraints can indeed be …
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intense debate. Two main families of models claim to solve this puzzle: habit-formation models and loss-aversion models. The … the observed data. The loss aversion model and the internal habit model could fit the observed excess return evolution …
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Purpose - The current study aims to investigate the impacts of two behavioral biases, namely, loss aversion and … overconfidence on the performance of US companies. First, the impact of loss aversion on the economic performance of companies was … study. Findings - It was documented that the loss-aversion bias negatively affects the economic performance of companies and …
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Using detailed mutual fund holdings in the US market, we estimate active mutual fund managers’ loss aversion as a … function of both funds’ past performance and asset allocations. We document a substantial variation in loss aversion over time …. We further find managers' loss aversion is higher when past fund flows were high and lower when past fund flows were …
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We propose a method to quantify other-regarding preferences in group decisions. Our method is based on revealed preference theory. It measures willingness-to- pay for others’ consumption and willingness-to-pay for equality in consumption by evaluating consumption externalities in monetary...
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In this paper it is shown that the intratemporal and intertemporal preferences of each decision maker in the household can be identified even if individual consumption is not observed. This identification result is used jointly with the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) to estimate the...
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The paper investigates the role of the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution (IES ) in determining the equity premium. This is done in an overlapping generations economy populated by agents that live for 2 periods and maximize a Kihlstrom-Mirman expected utility function. The equity premium...
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uncertainty about future income triggers saving because of loss aversion. We extend their theoretical analysis to also consider … the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …, experimentally elicited loss aversion and precautionary savings. We do so using a sample of 640 individuals from the low …
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uncertainty about future income triggers saving because of loss aversion. We extend their theoretical analysis to also consider … the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …, experimentally elicited loss aversion and precautionary savings. We do so using a sample of 640 individuals from the low …
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triggers an increase in saving because of loss aversion. Guided by the theoretical model of Koszegi and Rabin (2009), we first … extend their theoretical analysis to also consider the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and then … empirically study the relation between income risk, experimentally elicited loss aversion, and precautionary savings. We do so …
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