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Risk Aversion and Portfolio Selection in a Continuous-Time Model

Portfolio Management 2012-01-04 v3 Optimization and Control Probability

Abstract

The comparative statics of the optimal portfolios across individuals is carried out for a continuous-time complete market model, where the risky assets price process follows a joint geometric Brownian motion with time-dependent and deterministic coefficients. It turns out that the indirect utility functions inherit the order of risk aversion (in the Arrow-Pratt sense) from the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions, and therefore, a more risk-averse agent would invest less wealth (in absolute value) in the risky assets.

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@article{arxiv.0805.0618,
  title  = {Risk Aversion and Portfolio Selection in a Continuous-Time Model},
  author = {Jianming Xia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0618},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization after a major revision

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