It is an important issue for economic and finance applications to determine whether individuals exhibit a behavioral bias towards pessimism in their beliefs, in a lottery or more generally in an investment opportunities framework. In this paper, we analyze the answers of a sample of 1,540...

In securities markets, the characterization of the absence of arbitrage by the existence of state price deflators is generally obtained through the use of the Kreps-Yan theorem.This paper deals with the validity of this theorem (see Kreps, 1981, and Yan, 1980) in a general framework. More...

In this paper, we study securities market models with fixed costs. We characterize the absence of arbitrage opportunities and we provide fair pricing rules. We then apply these results to extend some popular interest rate and option pricing models, which present arbitrage opportunities in the...

This paper is a generalization of Calvet et al. (2002) to a dynamic setting. We propose a method to aggregate heterogeneous individual probability beliefs, in dynamic and complete asset markets, into a single consensus probability belief. This consensus probability belief, if commonly shared by...

This paper studies foundational issues in securities markets models with fixed costs of trading, i.e. transactions costs that are bounded regardless of the transaction size, such as fixed brokerage fees, investment taxes, operational, and processing costs or opportunity costs. We show that the...

Under a comonotonicity assumption between aggregate dividends and the market portfolio, the CCAPM formula becomes more tractable and more easily testable. In this paper, we provide theoretical justifications for such an assumption

Les divergences des analystes dans leurs preacute;visions des reacute;sultats futurs des entreprises est un fait. De maniegrave;re plus geacute;neacute;rale, la divergence d'opinion des investisseurs quant agrave; l'eacute;volution future des cours boursiers ou des fondamentaux de l'eacute;conomie est...

We consider in this paper two Markovian processes X and Y, solutions of a stochastic differential equation with jumps, that are comonotonic, i.e., that are such that for all t, almost surely, X_{t} is greater in one state of the world than in another if and only if the same is true for Y_{t}....

In this paper we propose a generalization of the comonotonicity notion by introducing and exploring the concept of conditional comonotonicity. We characterize this notion and we show on examples that conditional comonotonicity is the natural extension of the concept of comonotonicity to dynamic...