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Incomplete Diversification And Asset Pricing

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  • Robert Elliott

    (University of Calgary)

  • Dilip B. Madan

    (University of Maryland)

  • Frank Milne

    (Queen's University)

Abstract

Investors in equilibrium are modeled as facing investor specific risks across the space of assets.Personalized asset pricing models reflect these risks. Averaging across the pool of investors weobtain a market asset pricing model that reflects market risk exposures. It is observed on invokinga law of large numbers applied to an infinite population of investors, that many personally relevantrisk considerations can be eliminated from the market asset pricing model. Examples illustratingthe effects of undiversified labor income and taste specific price indices are provided. Suggestionsfor future work on asset pricing include a need to focus on identifying and explaining investorspecific risk exposures.

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  • Robert Elliott & Dilip B. Madan & Frank Milne, 2002. "Incomplete Diversification And Asset Pricing," Working Paper 1081, Economics Department, Queen's University.
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    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing

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