We study optimal portfolio, consumption-leisure and retirement choice of an infinitely-lived economic agent whose instantaneous preference is characterized by a constant elasticity of substitution(CES) function of consumption and leisure. We integrate in one model the optimal...

This paper studies the investment timing problem of an entrepreneur with a non- tradable real option with undiversifiable risk. We find that the time preference can have a significant impact on the risk attitude toward the idiosyncratic risk, which re- sults from the wealth effect on the implied...

Real options are a type of investment choice that supports decision-makers in making better strategic management decisions while simultaneously reducing uncertainty in investments. In this paper, we present a new model to help investors handle uncertain investment environments flexibly. First,...

We study an optimal portfolio and consumption choice problem of family that combines life insurance of parents who receive deterministic labor income until the fixed time T. We consider utility functions of parents and children separately and assume that parents have uncertain lifetime. If...