This paper analyzes the asset pricing implications of commonly-used portfolio management contracts linking the compensation of fund managers to the excess return of the managed portfolio over a benchmark portfolio. The contract parameters, the extent of delegation and equilibrium prices are all...

The paper analyzes asset pricing implications of commonly used performance fees linking the compensation of fund managers to the return of the managed portfolio relative to that of a benchmark portfolio. Symmetric(fulcrum) performance fees distort the allocation of managed portfolios in a way...

This paper constructs a representative agent supporting the equilibrium allocation in event-tree economies with time-additive preferences and possibly incomplete securities markets. If the equilibrium allocation is Pareto optimal, this construction gives the usual linear welfare function....

This paper examines the individual’s consumption and investment problem when labor income follows a general bounded process and the dollar amounts invested in the risky assets are constrained to take values in a given nonempty, closed, convex cone. Short sale constraints, as well as incomplete...