作者:Henderson, Vicky1 vicky.henderson@oxford-man.ox.ac.uk.
来源:Management Science; Feb2012, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p445-460, 16p, 4 Graphs.
文献类型:Article.
主题语:*LIQUIDATION
*CORPORATE divestiture
*BEHAVIORAL economics
*UTILITY functions
*BUSINESS mathematics
PROSPECT theory
OPTIMAL stopping (Mathematical statistics)
UNCERTAINTY.
摘要:There is a well-known intuition linking prospect theory with the disposition effect, the tendency of investors to sell assets that have risen in value rather than fallen. Recently, several authors have studied rigorous models in an attempt to formalize the intuition. However, some have found it difficult to predict a disposition effect while others produce a more extreme prediction where investors never voluntarily sell at a loss. We solve a model of asset liquidation where investors realize utility over gains and losses, and utility is concave over gains and convex over losses. Under the preferences of Tversky and Kahneman (Tversky, A., D. Kahneman.1992. Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty. J. Risk Uncertainty 5(4) 297-323)and lognormal asset prices, investors exhibit a disposition effect as gains are realized at a greater rate than losses. Nonetheless, in contrast to the extant literature, we find that the investor will "give up" and sell at a loss when the asset has a sufficiently low Sharpe ratio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].
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作者单位:1Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6ED, United Kingdom.
ISSN:00251909.
DOI:10.1287/mnsc.1110.1468.
入藏编号:73779996.
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