Portfolio Choice and Trading Volume with Loss-Averse Investors
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This paper presents a model of portfolio choice and stock trading volume with lossaverse investors. The demand function for risky assets is discontinuous and non-monotonic: as wealth rises beyond a threshold investors follow a generalized portfolio insurance strategy. This behavior is consistent with the evidence in favor of the disposition effect. In addition, loss-averse investors will not hold stocks unless the equity premium is quite high. The elasticity of the aggregate demand curve changes substantially, depending on the distribution of wealth across investors. In an equilibrium setting the model generates positive correlation between trading volume and stock return volatility, but suggests that this relationship should be non-linear.
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