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misspecified models. Under model misspecification, standard Bayesian learning loses its formal justification and biased learning … processes may provide a selection advantage. However, considering two cases of model misspecification and four learning … processes, our analysis reveals a general difficulty in ranking learning behaviors with respect to their long-run performances …
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I study the effects of risk and ambiguity (Knightian uncertainty) on optimal portfolios and equilibrium asset prices … ambiguity leads to portfolio inertia and excess volatility. Specifically, when news is surprising, then investors may not react …
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under ambiguity, called Shadow probability theory, a generalization of the Choquet expected utility. In this model … probability space. The level of ambiguity, and the decision maker's attitude toward it, are measured with respect to the directing …. The desired distinction between preferences and beliefs and between risk and ambiguity is then obtained. A measure of …
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We present comprehensive evidence in support of giving liquidity equal standing to size, value/growth, and momentum as investment styles, as defined by Sharpe (1992). First, we show that financial market liquidity, as identified by stock turnover, is an economically significant indicator of...
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There has been considerable research into dynamic global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) strategies driven by simple measures of Valuation and Momentum applied to a baseline balanced portfolio of equities and fixed income (see Blitz and van Vliet 2008, Wang and Kochard 2011, Gnedenko and Yelnik...
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Continuously rebalanced long-short trades are similar to highly levered trades in that their PNL profile depends not only on the final distribution of return, but also on the realized co-variance structure of the asset pair. It's easily possible for both orientations of a rebalanced long-short...
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ambiguity-Knightian uncertainty. The effect of ambiguity is distinct from and contrasts with the well-documented effect of risk …, and shares a similar economic significance. An increase in ambiguity is associated with a subsequent reduction in stock … peers' ambiguity, suggesting information spillovers. Interestingly, an increase in ambiguity is associated with a subsequent …
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all-stock rebalancing rule in hindsight), we reduce the "cost of universality" and achieve a higher learning rate. …
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The empirical asset pricing literature documents a myriad of anomalies. Accounting for the correlated and mean-reverting nature of these anomalies, I provide an explicit solution to the optimal dynamic investment problem of a risk-averse investor who trades in an arbitrary number of potentially...
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The central question addressed in this note is whether it is better to sell (and re-purchase) appreciated assets now and pay today's long-term capital gains tax rate, or wait to realize gains in the future and pay a likely higher capital gains tax rate. The authors argue that a framework based...
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