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This paper investigates investor disagreement and clientele effects in performance evaluation by developing a measure that considers the best potential clienteles of mutual funds. In an incomplete market under law-of-one-price and no-good-deal conditions, we obtain an upper bound on admissible...
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This paper develops a diagnostic tool for candidate performance measures that accounts for investor disagreement in mutual funds. We compare the evaluation for best clienteles, specified by an upper admissible performance bound, to the one for representative investors implicit in twelve models....
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principles of Expected Utility Theory (EUT) and of Portfolio Selection Theory (PST). The experiment is performed with individuals … providing additional risk that is not compensated by additional expected value. We find that the results of our experiment are …
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We develop a new theory of delegated investment whereby managers compete in terms of composition of the portfolios they … across states. An experiment involving about one hundred participants over six weeks broadly supports the theoretical … portfolios closer to Arrow-Debreu securities (as in the theory) and who had better recent performance (an observation unrelated …
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Many tests of asset pricing models address only the pricing predictions - but these pricing predictions rest on portfolio choice predictions which seem obviously wrong. This paper suggests a new approach to asset pricing and portfolio choices, based on unobserved heterogeneity. This approach...
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experiment. We find that individual trading gains and patterns are consistent with our theoretical predictions. Our results …
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Growing evidence shows that biological factors affect individual financial decisions that could be reflected in financial markets. Testosterone, a chemical messenger especially influential in male physiology, has been shown to affect economic decision making, and is taken as a...
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Management companies assign some portfolio managers to run funds within a single investment objective, specialists, and others to run funds across several investment objectives, generalists. Our results show that funds achieve higher performance when they appoint superior pickers as specialists...
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This study investigates whether retail and institutional investors concentrate their trading among certain stock categories (i.e., habitats) and whether their trading activities generate return comovements among stocks within those habitats. Our results indicate that both retail and...
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