Achieving Portfolio Diversification for Individuals with Low Financial Sustainability

Loan Portfolio Diversification, Market Structure and Financial Stability of Banks

 The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of bank loan portfolio diversification and market structure on the financial stability of banks in the countrychr('39')s capital market. In order to achieve the above goal, the financial data of 17 banks have been used as unbalanced panels in the period from 2005 to 2018. In this study, data analysis was performed using fixed effects model...

Financial Globalization, Portfolio Diversification, and the Pattern of International Trade

The paper provides a general equilibrium model to show how the incompleteness of international financial markets leads to insufficient industrial specialization and a depressed volume of goods trade. As international portfolio diversification is limited and productivity is uncertain, investors wish to maintain a diversified industrial structure, not specializing according to their comparative a...

Safety first portfolio choice based on financial and sustainability returns

The aim of this paper is to expand the methodological spectrum of socially responsible investing by introducing stochastic sustainability returns into safety first models for portfolio choice. We provide a foundation of the notion of sustainability in portfolio theory and establish a general model for generalized safety first portfolio management with probabilistic constraints and three special...

Asset Selection and Under-Diversification with Financial Constraints and Income: Implications for Household Portfolio Studies

Asset Selection and Under-Diversification with Financial Constraints and Income: Implications for Household Portfolio Studies

Empirical studies of household portfolios have shown that young and relatively poor households hold under-diversified portfolios that are concentrated in a small number of assets, a fact often attributed to various behavioral biases. We present a model that offers a potential rational alternative: we show that relatively poor investors; i.e., investors with little financial wealth, who receive ...