Showing 21 - 30 of 145,268
ambiguity averse relation. First, we define two notions of more ambiguous with respect to such a class. A more ambiguous (I) act … makes an ambiguity averse decision maker (DM) worse off but does not affect the welfare of an ambiguity neutral DM. A more … ambiguous (II) act adversely affects a more ambiguity averse DM more, as measured by the compensation they require to switch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927995
ambiguity averse relation. First, we define two notions of more ambiguous with respect to such a class. A more ambiguous (I) act … makes an ambiguity averse decision maker (DM) worse off but does not affect the welfare of an ambiguity neutral DM. A more … ambiguous (II) act adversely affects a more ambiguity averse DM more, as measured by the compensation they require to switch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694759
ambiguity averse relation. First, we define two notions of more ambiguous with respect to such a class. A more ambiguous (I) act … makes an ambiguity averse decision maker (DM) worse off but does not affect the welfare of an ambiguity neutral DM. A more … ambiguous (II) act adversely affects a more ambiguity averse DM more, as measured by the compensation they require to switch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143652
This paper explores how the scarcity of cognitive resources affects portfolio decisions. I consider an economy where investors allocate mental effort to learn about the mean return of a number of assets, by retrieving information from a stock of memories. As a result, parameter uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157628
control theory to the so-called multiplier and constraint preferences that have been used to express ambiguity aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025622
Using German and US brokerage data we find that investors are more likely to sell speculative stocks trading at a gain. Investors' gain realizations are monotonically increasing in a stock's speculativeness. This translates into a high disposition effect for speculative and a much lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013489467
Loss aversion has been shown to be an important driver of people’s investment decisions. Encouraged by regulators, financial institutions are in search of ways to incorporate clients’ loss aversion in their risk classifications. The most critical obstacle appears to be the lack of a valid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013492094
pricing models with smooth ambiguity. Statistical model comparison shows that models with ambiguity, learning and time … models featuring smooth ambiguity preferences. We rely on semi-nonparametric estimation of a flexible auxiliary model in our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780610
assets - and Markowitz - who advocates diversification across assets. We rely on the concepts of ambiguity and ambiguity … degree of ambiguity across assets, and (ii) the standard deviation of the estimate of expected return on each asset. If the … standard deviation of the expected return estimate and the difference between the ambiguity about familiar and unfamiliar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468537
This paper describes a pure-exchange, continuous-time economy with two heterogeneous agents and complete markets. A novel feature of the economy is that agents perceive some security returns as ambiguous in the sense often attributed to frank Knight. The equilibrium is described completely in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808127