The aim of this paper is twofold: First to test the adequacy of Pareto distributions to describe the tail of financial returns in emerging and developed markets, and second to study the possible correlation between stock market indices observed returns and return's extreme distributional...

The objective of this paper is twofold. The first is to incorporate mental accounting, loss aversion, asymmetric risk-taking behavior, and probability weighting in a multi-period portfolio optimization for individual investors. While these behavioral biases have previously been identified in the...

Most real world market participants are professional portfolio managers (PPM), which means that they are not managing their own money, but rather managing money for other people (e.g. mutual funds, pension funds). This situation generates an agency feature which has relevant consequences, as...

Recent literature has advocated that risk-taking behavior is influenced by prior monetary gains and losses. On one hand, after perceiving monetary gains, people are willing to take more risk (house-money effect). Another stream of the literature, based on prospect theory and loss aversion,...

Standard models of moral hazard predict a negative relationship between risk and incentives; however empirical studies on mutual funds present mixed results. In this paper, we propose a behavioral principal-agent model in the context of professional managers, focusing on active and passive...

Empirical research about the existence of momentum in Emerging Stock Markets shows that profits are in general positive but not always economically and statistically significant. This paper re-examines the momentum phenomenon in 15 emerging markets, using data from 1995 to 2005. Our results are...

Empirical research about the existence of momentum and reversal phenomena in Emerging Stock Markets shows that momentum profits are in general positive but not always economically and statistically significant. This paper re-examines the momentum and reversal phenomena in 15 emerging markets,...

The traditional mean-variance asset allocation approach considers the volatility of returns as the only risk factor. However, some asset classes present other types of risk, and so offer a premium embedded in their returns to compensate for the additional risk. If those risk premia are not taken...