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Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip; Pennings, Joost M.E.. |
This paper investigates the dynamics of sequential decision-making in agricultural futures and options markets. Analysis of trading records of 12 traders identified considerable heterogeneity in individual dynamic trading behavior. Using risk measures derived from the deltas and vegas of trader’s portfolios, we find nearly half the traders behavior is consistent with a house-money effect and the other half with loss aversion. These findings correspond closely to expected behavior inferred from elicited utility and probability weighting functions. The results call into question more aggregate findings that discount probability weighting to develop risk measures which support the notion of more uniform, less heterogeneous, behavior. Understanding behavior in... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Loss aversion; House-money effect; Futures; Options; Agricultural Finance. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37605 |
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