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explained as resulting from anchoring. However, experiments presented in support of this interpretation lack economic conditions … forecasting experiment, we find monetary incentives to substantially reduce and higher task complexity and risk to increase the … bias. Anchors ubiquitously reduce the forecasts' variance, while individual cognitive abilities and learning effects show …
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used in laboratory experiments. We use a field experiment to test whether the game can predict real world investments by …The incentivized risky investment game has become a popular tool in lab-in-the-field experiments for its simplicity and … detect attenuation bias due to measurement error. Subjects'cognitive memory of the game played one year earlier is strongly …
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Forecast combination has been proven to be a very important technique to obtain accurate predictions for various applications in economics, finance, marketing and many other areas. In many applications, forecast errors exhibit heavy-tailed behaviors for various reasons. Unfortunately, to our...
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experiments presented in support of this interpretation lack external validity for economic domains, particularly monetary …'s presence. Monetary incentives reduce the average bias to one-third of its original value. Additionally, the average anchor bias … abilities are on average less biased toward the anchor when task complexity is high. The anchoring bias in our repeated game is …
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, and thus its rationality can be evaluated. In two experiments, the authors observe that quick consensus emerges early …
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The Lucas (1978) Tree Model lies at the heart of modern macro-finance. At its core, it provides an analysis of the equilibrium price of a long-lived asset in an exchange economy where consumption is the objective, and the sole purpose of the asset is to smooth consumption through time....
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Variable annuities contain complex guarantees, whose fair market value cannot be calculated in closed form. To value the guarantees, insurance companies rely heavily on Monte Carlo simulation, which is extremely computationally demanding for large portfolios of variable annuity policies....
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This paper examines point and density forecasts from the European Central Bank's Survey of Professional Forecasters. We derive individual uncertainty measures along with individual point- and density-based measures of disagreement. We also explore the relationship between uncertainty and...
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We propose an information theoretic approach to measure price efficiency of financial assets and aggregate markets. Our measures draw on the idea of return predictability and are directly linked to the weak-form efficiency of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. Asness et. al. (2013) document strong...
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For a weighted sum of asset returns that are independent and identically distributed (IID) up to variance, we derive expressions linking the distribution of variance across assets with higher-order portfolio moments, assuming these quantities are finite. In particular, we show concise...
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