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Human capital investment and optimal portfolio choice

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  • Snorre Lindset
  • Egil Matsen

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We analyze how an individual should optimally invest in human capital when he also has financial wealth. We treat the individual's possibilities to take more education as expansion options and apply real option analysis. In addition, we characterize the individual's optimal consumption strategy and portfolio weights. The individual has a demand for hedging financial risk, labor income risk, and also wage level risk.

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  • Snorre Lindset & Egil Matsen, 2011. "Human capital investment and optimal portfolio choice," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(7), pages 539-552.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:17:y:2011:i:7:p:539-552
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2010.495480
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    1. Kartik Athreya & Felicia Ionescu & Urvi Neelakantan, 2023. "Stock Market Participation: The Role of Human Capital," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 47, pages 1-18, January.
    2. Kartik B. Athreya & Felicia Ionescu & Urvi Neelakantan, 2015. "Stock Market Investment: The Role of Human Capital," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015-65, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

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