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How should one evaluate investment projects whose CCAPM betas are uncertain? This question is particularly crucial for projects yielding long-lasting impacts on the economy, as is the case for example for many green investments. We define the notion of a certainty equivalent beta. We show that...
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increasing term structure for the risk premium. It also implies that, under the assumption that the cummulants of the … investment is larger than half of relative risk aversion. Another important consequence of parametric uncertainty is that the … risk premium is not proportional to the beta of the investment. We apply these general results to the case of an uncertain …
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against Sharpe-Lintner CAPM and Fama-French three factor models are found mainly during the recent financial crisis. Also we …
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making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations … models proposed in the literature can be used to formally characterize and quantify market risk. In particular, we ask how … adequate these models are for modelling market risk at times of financial crisis. In doing so we consider a multivariate t …
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We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …
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the magnitude of the optimal paygo program and the nature of the underlying risk sharing effects are very sensitive to the … chosen combination of risk concepts and stochastic specification of long run aggregate wage income growth. In an additive way … we distinguish between the pooling of wage and capital risks within periods and two different intertemporal risk sharing …
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Under conditions of risk it makes a difference whether the discount rate is determined as an expected present or as an …
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The recent financial crisis and historical record suggest important lessons about the design of national pension systems. First, wide fluctuation in asset returns makes it hard for well-informed savers to select a saving rate or a sensible investment strategy for DC pensions. Workers who follow...
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-horizon investors overstate the share of bonds in their portfolio choice when neglecting the horizon effect on risk of asset returns …
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This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...
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