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make decisions based on their perceived level of housing wealth. Numerical simulations generate the effects of house value …
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make decisions based on their perceived level of housing wealth. Numerical simulations generate the effects of house value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930592
We generalize the classic Grossman and Laroque (1990) (GL) model of optimal portfolio choice with housing and …) houses when their wealth-to-housing ratios reach an optimal lower (upper) boundary. However, in our model, these boundaries … a more expensive house in periods of high expected growth in house prices have significantly lower ex-ante wealth-to-housing …
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demonstrates how the share of total wealth held in housing is sensitive to the rate of inflation, even when perfectly anticipated …
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We investigate the effect of the regime-switching transaction costs and dividends on liquidity premium and investor's optimal strategy. With reasonably calibrated parameters, we show that counter-cyclical transaction costs substantially raise liquidity premium while pro-cyclical dividends...
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This paper explores the application of contingent claims analysis (CCA) to two quot;hotquot; issues in life-cycle finance: (1) investing for retirement and (2) deciding when, if ever, to switch careers. Participants in individual retirement accounts do not have the time or the knowledge to make...
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The most recent financial crisis highlights the importance of event risks and the ensuing market illiquidity and worsening investment opportunity set for optimal portfolio selection. However, the existing portfolio selection literature does not consider the joint impact of these risks. In this...
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Should an investor unwind his portfolio in the face of changing economic conditions? We study an investor's optimal trading strategy with finite horizon and transaction costs in an economy that switches stochastically between two market conditions. We fully characterize the investor's time...
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For pension-savers, a low payoff is a financial disaster. Such investors will most likely prefer left-skewed payoff distributions over right-skewed payoff distributions. We explore how such distributions can be delivered. Cautious-relaxed utility measures are cautious in ensuring that payoffs...
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We solve the problem of optimal risk management for an investor holding an illiquid, alpha generating fund and hedging his position with a liquid futures contract. When the investor is subject to a drawdown constraint, he is forced to reduce the total risk of his portfolio after a drawdown. In...
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