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We show theoretically that the weak transmission of beliefs to actions induces a strong bias in basic asset pricing tests. In particular, expected returns can appear to decline in risk when investors weakly transmit their payoff expectations into willingness to pay. We experimentally test this...
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and risk-loving when faced with loss. Benartzi and Thaler (1995) combined the Myopic Loss Aversion and Mental Accounting … betting amounts. Third, the professional financial workers show comparatively less tendency towards Myopic Loss Aversion …. Finally, compared to women, men have significant tendency towards Myopic Loss Aversion. …
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allocation for a sufficient loss averse worker depends on the reference level which in turn determines whether the worker is … willing to experience relative losses or not. When the reference level is relatively low then the sufficiently loss averse … worker will allocate some of her time to leisure and will hold both jobs in order to diversify risk and reduce income loss …
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We examine how generations X, Y, and Z might react to market-moving events over short- and long-term horizons to maintain an optimal balance among risk, return, and investor preferences. To analyze various portfolio variants, we use data on selected global assets and several types of economic...
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In the last decade, the Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) flows have increased almost twenty times and attained shares of thirteen and six percent in the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchanges respectively in the cash segment of the Indian equity market. This raises the issue of...
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This paper examines institutions' portfolio allocation and performance in US securities. We test how information immobility, proxied by market correlation and cultural and geographical distance between the investors' home markets and the US, influences portfolio strategies. Consistent with...
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This paper examines foreign institutional investors' portfolio allocation and performance in U.S. securities. We test how information immobility, proxied by cultural and geographical distance between the investors' home markets and the U.S., influences portfolio strategies. Consistent with...
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We find substantial herding in U.S. corporate bonds among bond fund managers, much higher than that previously documented for the equity market. Herding is generally stronger among illiquid bonds, and buy herding and sell herding are driven by different factors. In particular, sell herding...
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This paper (i) provides evidence on the procyclical investment behavior of major institutional investors during the global financial crisis; (ii) identifies the main factors that could account for such behavior; (iii) discusses the implications of procyclical behavior; and (iv) proposes a...
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