Unreasonable rationality?

Unreasonable rationality?

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Article ID: iaor19961536
Country: United States
Volume: 41
Issue: 9
Start Page Number: 1538
End Page Number: 1548
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Journal: Management Science
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Keywords: decision, values, finance & banking
Abstract:

This paper explores how fractional demands (the optimal fraction of wealth invested in a security) change upon exogenous changes in security returns and wealth. In the first part of the paper, the analysis is conducted in an Arrow-Debreu framework. Here the paper demonstrates the counterintuitive but completely rational result that fractional demands can remain unchanged or in fact decrease upon an exogenous increase in return. Furthermore, they show that this can occur without any offsetting wealth effect. In the second part of the paper, the authors apply these results to ordinary securities (those composed of fixed portfolios of Arrow-Debreu securities). Here they derive a complete analytical solution and show that portfolio managers should beware. Even correct information that the return from holding an underlying pure security will improve is not sufficient to conclude that one should increase (or decrease) one’s holdings of any particular stock.

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