Empirical Pricing Kernels and Investor Preferences

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Empirical Pricing Kernels and Investor Preferences

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Kai Detlefsen
Wolfgang Härdle
Rouslan Moro

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Wolfgang Karl Härdle

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This paper analyzes empirical market utility functions and pricing kernels derived from the DAX and DAX option data for three market regimes. A consistent parametric framework of stochastic volatility is used. All empirical market utility functions show a region of risk proclivity that is reproduced by adopting the hypothesis of heterogeneous individual investors whose utility functions have a switching point between bullish and bearish attitudes. The inverse problem of finding the distribution of individual switching points is formulated in the space of stock returns by discretization as a quadratic optimization problem. The resulting distributions vary over time and correspond to different market regimes.

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Paper provided by Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in its series SFB 649 Discussion Papers with number SFB649DP2007-017.

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Date of creation: Apr 2007
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G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing
G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
C50 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - General

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NEP-ALL-2007-04-09 (All new papers)
NEP-UPT-2007-04-09 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)

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Yuri Golubev & Wolfgang Härdle & Roman Timonfeev, 2008. "Testing Monotonicity of Pricing Kernels," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2008-001, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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