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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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Financial researchers agree that allocating money to employer stock in a 401(k) plan is a poor strategy, yet many employees do so. Not only does this investment strategy bear unrewarded idiosyncratic risk, but it also correlates employees' retirement portfolios with their human capital. I find...
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We introduce a financial portfolio optimization framework that allows us to automatically select the relevant assets and estimate their weights by relying on a sorted L1-Norm penalization, henceforth SLOPE. Our approach is able to group constituents with similar correlation properties, and with...
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create the efficiency factor. Secondly, we estimate the prices of risk tied to the four factors using ordinary least squares … the performance of the model, including and omitting the efficiency factor. The results show that the efficiency factor … conclude that the efficiency index may be used as a factor in asset pricing models. …
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Diversification is a fundamental concept in economics, decision theory, and finance, but the way in which it is …
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overconfidence, Pareto efficiency is no longer the natural criterion for comparing policies and we suggest ex-post welfare optimality …
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