We use the portfolio selection model presented in He and Zhou [<italic>Manage. Sci.</italic>, 2011, <bold>57</bold>, 315-331] and the NYSE equity and US treasury bond returns for the period 1926-1990 to revisit Benartzi and Thaler's myopic loss aversion theory. Through an extensive empirical study, we find that in addition...

An investor holding a stock needs to decide when to sell it over a given investment horizon. It is tempting to think that she should sell at the maximum price over the entire horizon, which is however impossible to achieve. A close yet realistic goal is to sell the stock at a time when the...

It is well established that, in a market with inclusion of a risk-free asset, the single-period mean-variance efficient frontier is a straight line tangent to the risky region, a fact that is the very foundation of the classical CAPM. In this paper, it is shown that, in a continuous-time market...

We consider a problem of risk control and dividend optimization for a financial corporation facing a constant liability payment. More specifically we investigate the case of excess-of-loss reinsurance for an insurance company. In this scheme the insurance company diverts a part of its premium...

In standard portfolio theories such as Mean-Variance optimization, expected utility theory, rank dependent utility heory, Yaari's dual theory and cumulative prospect theory, the worst outcomes for optimal strategies occur when the market declines (e.g. during crises), which is at odds with the...