This paper conducts a laboratory experiment to assess the optimal portfolio allocation under quantile preferences (QP) and compare the model's predictions with those of the expected utility theory using a mean-variance (MV) utility function. We estimate the risk aversion coefficients associated...

This paper studies a dynamic quantile model for intertemporal decisions under uncertainty, in which the decision maker maximizes the τ-quantile of the stream of future utilities, for τ ∈ (0,1). We present two sets of contributions. First, we generalize existing results in directions that are...