Adding volatility exposure to an equity portfolio offers interesting opportunities for long-term investors. This article discusses the advantages of adding a long volatility strategy for a protection to a global European equity portfolio and to specific equity portfolios based in "core" or...

We revisit the model proposed by Gollier-Müermann (2010). In GM, the set of possible anticipations is assumed to be exogeneously fixed. We rather propose a set of possible anticipations that is endogeneously fixed. This permits to consider lotteries with different supports and to revisit the...

Following recent developments in the literature about portfolio choices (Flavin and Yamashita, 2002; Cocco, 2004; Yao and Zhang, 2005), this paper analyses the empirical link between stockholding and housing wealth. We use the French wealth survey (Enquête Patrimoine2004, Insee) that give us detailed...

This thesis studies portfolio choice and asset pricing with preferences which go beyond the standard expected utility and mean-Variance preferences. The first part of this thesis analyses a decision model in which the decision maker forms endogenous beliefs given his anticipation utility and his...

This paper examines a decision-making problem of rational agents with risk averse utilities in the financial market both in statics and in dynamics. In the financial market there are two securities, one risky security and one riskless bond, and a continuum of investors with heterogeneous...

This paper analyses a temporary financial market equilibrium by considering a two-period model of asset pricing with s securities, one riskless bond, and a continuum of heterogeneous agents with different preferences, endowments, and beliefs. Investors' objectives are to maximize the expected...