This paper analyzes the relations among firm-level stock option portfolio incentives, investment, and firm value based on a sample of Finnish firms during the time period 1987 – 2000. Utilizing exact and complete information regarding stock option portfolio characteristics, we find some evidence that firm investment is increasing in the incentives to increase stock price (delta) and risk (vega)...

Assefiiability management, optimal fund design and optimal portfolio selection have been key issues of interest to the (re)insurance and investment banking communities, respectively, for some years especially in the design of advanced risk-transfer solutions for clients in the Fortune 500 group of companies. AFIR 1996 publications dealing with these topics were, e.g., Optimal Fund Design for In...

The purpose of stock portfolio selection is how to allocate the capital to a large number of stocks in order to bring a most profitable return for investors. In most of past literatures, experts considered the portfolio of selection problem only based on past crisp or quantitative data. However, many qualitative and quantitative factors will influence the stock portfolio selection in real inves...

In this paper we examine whether variation in investors’ demand for risky assets is associated with recoveries on defaulted debt securities. Our examination is motivated by the prediction of standard portfolio separation theorems that an increase in aggregate investor risk aversion is associated with a decrease in the demand for the market portfolio of risky assets. Motivated by this prediction...

Portfolio selection problem is one of the core research fields in modern financial management. While considering the transaction costs in the long term investment makes the portfolio selection problems more complex than there are no transaction costs. In this paper, the general multi-period investment problems with HARA utility function and proportional transaction costs are investigated. By us...

An adaptive supervised learning decision (ASLD) trading system has been presented by Xu and Cheung (1997) to optimize the expected returns of investment without considering risks. In this paper, we propose an extension of the ASLD system (EASLD), which combines the ASLD with a portfolio optimization scheme to take a balance between the expected returns and risks. This new system not only keeps ...

This paper discusses a simulation-based method for solving discrete-time multiperiod portfolio choice problems under AR 1 process. The method is applicable even if the distributions of return processes are unknown. We first generate simulation sample paths of the random returns by using AR bootstrap. Then, for each sample path and each investment time, we obtain an optimal portfolio estimator, ...

Methods for selecting a research and development (R&D) project portfolio have attracted considerable interest among practitioners and academics. This notwithstanding, the industrial uptake of these methods has remained limited, partly due to the difficulties of capturing relevant concerns in R&D portfolio management. Motivated by these difficulties, we develop Contingent Portfolio Programming (...

Portfolio selection is an important issue for researchers and practitioners. In this paper, under the assumption that security returns are given by experts' evaluations rather than historical data, we discuss the portfolio adjusting problem which takes transaction costs and diversification degree of portfolio into consideration. Uncertain variables are employed to describe the security returns....

The demand for durable goods is more cyclical than that for nondurable goods and services. Consequently, the cash flow and stock returns of durable-good producers are exposed to higher systematic risk. Using the benchmark input-output accounts of the National Income and Product Accounts, we construct portfolios of durablegood, nondurable-good, and service producers. In the cross-section, an inv...