Download or read book Temperant Portfolio Choice and Background Risk written by Luc Arrondel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We explore empirically whether earnings uncertainty and borrowing constraints deter households from the stockmarket, consistent with the predictions of theoretical studies of portfolio choice in the presence of uninsurable earnings. Recent extensions highlight the importance of the correlation between earnings and financial risks. We use a self-assessed proxy for the correlation from the DELTA-TNS 2002 cross-sectional survey. While income risk does not deter from the stockmarket those households' reporting a negative correlation, it does for those who report a non-negative sign, consistent with economic theory predictions.
Download or read book Portfolio Choice with a Correlated Background Risk written by Luc Arrondel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portfolio Choice With a Correlated Background Risk written by Luc Arrondel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we extend the static portfolio choice problem with a small background risk to the case of small partially correlated background risks. We show that respecting the theories under which risk substitution appears, except for the independence of background risk, it is perfectly rational for the individual to increase his optimal exposure to portfolio risk when risks are partially negatively correlated. Then, we test empirically the hypothesis of risk substitutability using French households data. We found that households respond by increasing their stockholdings in response to the increase in future earnings uncertainty. This conclusion is in contradiction with results obtained in other countries. So, in light of these results, our model provides an explanation to account for the lack of empirical consensus on cross-country tests of risk substitution theory that encompasses and criticises all of them.
Download or read book Non market Wealth Background Risk and Portfolio Choice written by Günter Franke and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Background Risk on Optimal Portfolios written by Octave Jokung and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this paper we analyze the demand for assets in presence of a dependent background risk (informational asymmetries, political risk, quot;noisy traderquot;, investment constraints, moral hazard, nonmarketable assets,...) The desirability of the risky asset is pointed out and also the fact that the demand is monotonously decreasing in the degree of dependence in a specified interval by the use of stochastic variation. Negative dependence is enough to guarantee that investors will take more risky asset even if the expected return is null, and this result is reversed in case of positive one. The convexity of the marginal utility is enough to guarantee that the fraction of wealth optimally invested in the risky asset is unambiguously larger (smaller) for wealthier individuals when the dependence is negative (positive). The investor's portfolio choice is conveniently characterized.
Download or read book Risk Aversion and Portfolio Choice written by Donald D. Hester and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portfolio Choice Under Risk Limits written by Juan Carlos Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Higher Order Risk Preferences Constant Relative Risk Aversion and the Optimal Portfolio Allocation written by Trino Manuel Ñíguez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We derive the conditions for the optimal portfolio choice within a constant relative risk aversion type of utility function considering alternative probability distributions that are able to capture the asymmetric and leptokurtic features of asset returns. We illustrate the role -- beyond risk aversion -- played by higher-order moments in the optimal decision to form a portfolio of risky assets. In particular, we show that higher-order risk attitudes such as prudence and temperance associated with the third and fourth moments of the distribution define different optimal portfolios than those constrained under risk aversion.
Download or read book Housing Markets in Europe written by Olivier de Bandt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the recession in the years 2008-2009, the most severe for mature economies in the post-war period, housing markets were often mentioned as having a special responsibility. The objective of this book is to shed light on the cyclical behaviour of the housing markets, its fundamental determinants in terms of supply and demand characteristics, and its relationship with the overall business cycle. The co-movements of house prices across countries are also considered, as well as the channel of transmission of house price changes to the rest of the economy. Particular attention is paid to the effects on private consumption, through possible wealth effects. The book is a compilation of original papers produced by economists and researchers from the four main national central banks in the euro area, also with the participation of leading academics.
Download or read book Stockholding in Europe written by L. Guiso and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has been a time of drastic developments, both in financial markets and in related academic research. Among the most striking developments are the expanded stockholder base, the increased popularity of mutual funds among households, and the growing importance of private pension funds. Developments in Europe mirror to a large extent the spread of equity culture in the United States, but with lower levels of involvement and interesting differences across European countries. This book, intended for a wide audience of students, practitioners, and policy makers, provides the theoretical and methodological background necessary for analysis of stockholding behaviour, and presents empirical studies that use the most comprehensive household-level databases to identify determinants of stockholding in five major European countries.
Download or read book Fuzzy Mathematics written by Etienne E. Kerre and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Fuzzy Mathematics" that was published in Mathematics
Download or read book Portfolio Choice and Asset Pricing with Non homothetic Preferences written by Maarten Meeuwis and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I estimate the structural parameters of a life-cycle consumption and portfolio choice model with non-homothetic risk preferences and study the quantitative implications of decreasing relative risk aversion for inequality and asset pricing. The model matches empirical patterns in portfolio allocations with a significant degree of nonhomotheticity in risk preferences, such that a 10% permanent income growth leads to a decrease in risk aversion by 1.9%. Decreasing relative risk aversion in the model doubles the share of wealth at the top, as equity is concentrated in the hands of the wealthy. The model also implies that rising income inequality in the U.S. has led to a 14% decline in the equity premium over the past three decades. Finally, I find that the model implications of time-varying risk aversion for the dynamics of asset prices are quantitatively limited.
Download or read book Estimation Risk and Optimal Portfolio Choice written by S. J. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portfolio Choice and Liquidity Constraints written by Michael Haliassos and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Portfolio Choice and Risk Management written by Yi-Chin Hsin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization increases the access to financial markets and provides expanding opportunities for investors to diversify internationally. As suggested by the Modern Portfolio Theory (Markowiz, 1952), rational investors should use one of the following two strategies to achieve portfolio diversification: (1) Investing in asset classes thought to have low correlations or (2) increasing the sizes of their portfolios in multiple markets. In the early 1970s, diversification was referred to as the “free lunch” in investment. However, French and Poterba (1991) show that investors still tend to hold a disproportionate part of domestic equities in their portfolios. This phenomenon is called “the equity home bias,” which is still puzzling in the international finance literature. These essays investigate what drives individuals to hold inefficient portfolios and forgo the benefits of international diversification. The first chapter of this study explains the equity home bias among international portfolios by analyzing the relationship between the sizes of portfolio required and the investor’s perception about risk. A flexible three-parameter distribution developed by Hueng and Yau (2006) to model the measures of risk for stock returns is extended here. Conclusions reveal that there is a trade-off between the desirable reduction of variance and the undesirable increase of negative skewness of diversifying international portfolios. This trade-off relationship may give an explanation to the equity home bias phenomenon in reality. The second chapter further examines the same question from the correlation perspective. Through numerical analysis, this chapter presents the evolution of U.S. equity home bias in the context of dynamic correlations between developed and emerging markets. The results imply that the persistent high correlations between the developed European and North American markets induced a high U.S. home bias; while on the other hand, the developed Pacific Asian and emerging markets have been relatively less correlated with that of the North American market and has led to a lower U.S. home bias. As future correlations are steadily increasing, investors may seek newly open markets for diversification benefits in the present. Yet over the long run, the benefits of international diversification can be very few. The home bias in the future will be rationalized by the equilibrium correlations between international markets. The third chapter uses micro data to analyze the portfolio choices in risky assets over the working-age of the single individual and the retired segments that are exposed to health and medical expense risk. Single retirees respond to changes in medical expenses by altering their portfolio toward risky assets, while no evidence is found in the changes of single working people’s portfolios. This result is in contrast to theoretical prediction, which assumes that the elders tend to hold riskless assets.
Download or read book Estimation Risk and Portfolio Choice written by James Edward Savarino and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Profiling and Tolerance Insights for the Private Wealth Manager written by Joachim Klement and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If risk aversion and willingness to take on risk are driven by emotions and we as humans are bad at correctly identifying them, the finance profession has a serious challenge at hand—how to reliably identify the individual risk profile of a retail investor or high-net-worth individual. In this series of CFA Institute Research Foundation briefs, we have asked academics and practitioners to summarize the current state of knowledge about risk profiling in different key areas.
