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Faculty of Business
Management
Quantitative Method of
Decision Making
David Moses
In a Guidance of
Mindaugas Butkus
BRIEF HISTORY
ERP Puzzle was firstly declared by
Mehra and Prescott (1985). Based on the
standard general equilibrium model under the
assumption that individuals have additively
separable utility functions and constant relative
risk aversion, they applied the model into the
historical data of stock returns in US market
from 1889 to 1978.
ERP level was 6.18% during that time, and
the risk aversion coefficient was estimated to be
between 30 and 40 through the equilibrium
model.
A General Discussion of
Explanation for ERP Puzzle
BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE
ASPECTS
Myopic Loss Aversion
BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE
ASPECTS
Dynamic Loss Aversion
Currency investors exhibit a tendency to cut risk by
pairing both longs and shorts following losses and a
weaker tendency to add risk following gains. By
differentiating between position-level, portfolio-level, and
aggregate cross portfolio losses in currency investments
BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE
ASPECTS
Ambiguity Aversion
An ambiguity-averse individual would rather
choose an alternative where the probability distribution of
the outcomes is known over one where the probabilities
are unknown.
First Stage
Market participants
mainly institutional
investors.
Second Stage
Third Stage
US is not dominant
Conclusion
Chinas equity market expanded rapidly following
the opening of securities markets in the cities of Shanghai
and Shenzhen.
However, compared to USs stock market, Chinas
stock market is immature and less developed, individual
investors lack knowledge of the financial market,
institutional investors still learn experiences of playing a
leading role for the harmonious expansion of stock
markets, and regulation system is incomplete.