Disposition Effect on Two Classical Expected Utility Models: Exponential and Power
A disposition effect is the observation that investors tend to sell winning stocks too early and hold losing stocks too long. In this paper, we investigate whether expected utility theory explains the disposition effect. We implement two models of expected utility theory: exponential and power. We s...
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Mathematical Institute;University of Oxford
2009
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| Summary: | A disposition effect is the observation that investors tend to sell winning stocks too early and hold losing stocks too long. In this paper, we investigate whether expected utility theory explains the disposition effect. We implement two models of expected utility theory: exponential and power. We show that for reasonable parameter values the disposition effect can be explained by expected utility theory. |
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