De Giorgi, Enrico () (Institute of Finance, University of Lugano) Hens, Thorsten () (Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich)
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This paper gives a survey over a common aspect of prospect theory that occurred to be of importance in a series of recent papers developed by Enrico De Giorgi, Thorsten Hens, Janos Mayer, Haim Levy, Thierry Post, Marc Oliver Rieger and Mei Wang. The common aspect of these papers is that the value function of the prospect theory of Kahneman and Tversky (1979) and similarly that of Tversky and Kahneman (1992) has to be re-modelled if one wants to apply it to portfolio selection. Instead of the piecewise power value function, a piecewise negative exponential function should be used. This functional form is still compatible with laboratory experiments but it has the following advantages over and above Kahneman and Tversky`s piecewise power function:
1. The Bernoulli Paradox does not arise for lotteries with finite expected value.
2. No infinite leverage/robustness problem arises.
3. CAPM-equilibria with heterogeneous investors and prospect utility do exist.
4. It is able to simultaneously resolve the following asset pricing puzzles: the equity premium, the value and the size puzzle.
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Paper provided by Department of Finance and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in its series Discussion Papers with number
2005/19.
Length: 18 pages Date of creation: 22 Dec 2005 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:hhs:nhhfms:2005_019
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