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Illusion of expertise in portfolio decisions : an experimental approach

Fellner, Gerlinde; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001

Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...

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Overconfidence in investment decisions : an experimental approach

Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001

We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices. Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence...

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Risk-taking-neutral background risk

Franke, Günter; Schlesinger, Harris; Stapleton, Richard C. - 2013

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...

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Application of stochastic optimal control to financial market debt crises

Stein, Jerome L. - 2009

This interdisciplinary paper explains how mathematical techniques of stochastic optimal control can be applied to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal...

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Diverse risk preferences and heterogeneous expectations in an asset pricing model

Gomez, Thomas; Piccillo, Giulia - 2019

We propose a heuristic switching model of an asset market where the agents' choice of heuristic is consistent with their individual risk aversion. They choose between a fundamentalist and a trend-following rule to form expectations about the price of a risky asset. Given their risk aversion,...

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Salience and skewness preferences

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats - 2018

Whether people seek or avoid risks on gambling, insurance, asset, or labor markets crucially depends on the skewness of … skewed risks. We show that salience theory of choice under risk can explain this preference for positive skewness, because … choices under risk not only depend on the absolute skewness of the available options, but also on how skewed these options …

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Skewness preferences : evidence from online poker

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Kasinger, Johannes; Schneider, … - 2024

We test for skewness preferences in a large set of observational panel data on online poker games (n=4,450,585). Each … decision-makers. Individuals reveal a strong and robust preference for skewness, which is inconsistent with expected utility … theory. The effect of skewness is most pronounced among experienced and unsuccessful players but remains significant in all …

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Home ownership and household portfolio choice

Michielsen, Thomas; Mocking, Remco; Veldhuizen, Sander van - 2016

We study the effect of home equity and indebtedness on financial portfolio choices of Dutch households during the period 2006-2012. Using a large administrative dataset at the household level we estimate how home equity and the outstanding mortgage amount influence the share of liquid assets...

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The standard portfolio choice problem in Germany

Huck, Steffen; Schmidt, Tobias; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2015

We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable...

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The promises and pitfalls of robo-advising

D'Acunto, Francesco; Prabhala, Nagpurnanand R.; Rossi, … - 2018

We study a robo-advising portfolio optimizer that constructs tailored strategies based on investors' holdings and preferences. Adopters are similar to non-adopters in terms of demographics, but have more assets under management, trade more, and have higher risk-adjusted performance. The...

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