Essays in Financial Economics

Chapter 1 introduces novel preference formulations which capture aversion to ambiguity about unknown and potentially time-varying volatility. These preferences are compared with Gilboa and Schmeidler's maxmin expected utility as well as variational formulations of ambiguity aversion. The impact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Peter G.
Other Authors: Lo, Andrew W.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139128
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