We examine a production-based asset pricing model with an unobservable mean growth rate ollowing a two-state Markov chain and with an ambiguity averse representative agent. Our model requires a low coefficient of relative risk aversion to produce: (i) a high equity premium and volatile equity...

We confront the generalized recursive smooth ambiguity aversion preferences of Klibanoff, Marinacci, and Mukerji (2005, 2009) with data using Bayesian methods introduced by Gallant and McCulloch (2009) to close two existing gaps in the literature. First, we use macroeconomic and financial data...

We formalize a consumption-investment-insurance problem with the distinction of a state-dependent relative risk aversion. The state-dependence refers to the state of the finite state Markov chain that also formalizes insurable risks such as health and lifetime uncertainty. We derive and analyze...

Does the evaluation of a portfolio of stocks depend on its composition of winner and loser stocks? To test this, we define a simple, counting-based measure of performance – the number of winner relative to the number of loser stocks in a portfolio – and examine how this composition measure...

This paper studies the behaviour of retail investors, that tend to be unwilling to make fi nancial decisions on their own and therefore follow other investors' strategies on online trading platforms, in particular with respect to their proneness towards the disposition effect. Therefore, we...

A number of investors and portfolio managers are increasing the presence of alternative assets in their portfolios to a level close to traditional assets, harbouring the new frontiers in asset management research, including new risk premia, alternative beta, multifactor models. We build an...

We link a seemingly biased trading behavior to equilibrium asset prices. U.S. equity mutual fund managers tend to sell both their big winners and big losers. This selling pressure pushes down current prices and leads to higher future returns; aggregating across funds, we nd that securities for...