S-shaped utility, subprime crash and the black swan
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Keywords
financial puzzles; subprime crash; black swan; S-shaped utility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2008-12-21 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-HIS-2008-12-21 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2008-12-21 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2008-12-21 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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