The concept of “familiarity” has been used in financial economics to explain apparent paradoxes in people's behavior, such as the home bias in portfolio choices. In this study, we investigate whether (lack of) familiarity with the language of investor communication may contribute to an explanation of the well-documented gender gap in financial decision-making (i.e. women participate less in the...

This article presents a case study of the ePortfolio being used for programmatic and professional development assessment of senior-level undergraduates in a diverse professional writing program. It describes the evaluation methodologies used to assess professional writing students’ preparation for graduation and for the workplace as well as the challenges of maintaining “best practices” for ass...

1Jonathan B. Berk Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley and National Bureau of Economic Research Email: [email protected] P roponents of “efficient markets” argue that it is impossible to consistently beat the market. In support of their view they point to the evidence that, as a group, active managers do not beat the market and conclude that even these investment prof...

The problem of technology management is presented on example of Radio Frequency Identification. Research questions were formulated and methodology for assessment of RFID was presented. Paper is focused on strategic aspects of assessment of RFID technology. Therefore, application of portfolio method was proposed. Original set of questions for evaluation criteria was proposed and tailored to supp...

The Role of Learning in Dynamic Portfolio Decisions This paper analyzes the effect of uncertainty about the mean return on the risky asset on the portfolio decisions of an investor who has a long investment horizon. Building on the earlier work of Detemple (1986), Dothan and Feldman (1986), and Gennotte (1986), it is shown that the possibility of future learning about the mean return on the ris...

Reducing corporate risk has long been a business strategy concern. Many scholars support diversification as a method to achieve risk reduction. Building on organisational portfolio analysis, we develop the concept of ‘desynchronicity’ as a complement to existing diversification theories about risk reduction. Organisational portfolio analysis views firms as portfolios of business units, suggesti...

This paper considers a multi-objective portfolio selection problem imposed by gaining of portfolio, divided yield and risk control in an ambiguous investment environment, in which the return and risk are characterized by probabilistic numbers. Based on the theory of possibility, a new multi-objective portfolio optimization model with gaining of portfolio, divided yield and risk control is propo...

due to project evaluation complexity and resource constraints, the project portfolio optimization is numerous decision making challenges. hence, many researches have been done to introduce model and methods for portfolio optimization. but most of them have not considered the interaction between projects. considering the interactions between projects increase complexity of portfolio optimization...

financial derivatives are new instruments through which hedging, investment and arbitrage are done in a modern economy. although the word 'derivative'primarily reminds us of options and futures, the major focus of the equity derivatives industry worldwide is on index derivatives. launching index options and index futures in tehran stock exchange, not only increases financial market de...

Funders of biomedical research are often challenged to understand how a new funding initiative fits within the agency's portfolio and the larger research community. While traditional assessment relies on retrospective review by subject matter experts, it is now feasible to design portfolio assessment and gap analysis tools leveraging administrative and grant application data that can be used fo...