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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Does prospect theory explain the disposition effect? |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Journal of Behavioral Finance |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1542-7560 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Number | 3 |
| Page Range | 141 - 157 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Abstract Text | The disposition effect is the observation that investors hold winning stocks too long and sell losing stocks too early. A standard explanation of the disposition effect refers to prospect theory and in particular to the asymmetric risk aversion according to which investors are risk averse when faced with gains and risk-seeking when faced with losses. We show that for reasonable parameter values the disposition effect can however not be explained by prospect theory as proposed by Kahneman and Tversky. The reason is that those investors who sell winning stocks and hold loosing assets would in the frst place not have invested in stocks. That is to say the standard prospect theory argument is sound ex-post, assuming that the investment has taken place, but not ex-ante, requiring that the investment is made in the first place. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1080/15427560.2011.601976 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:4029 |
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