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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Evolution of Portfolio Rules in Incomplete Markets
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Thorsten Hens
  • Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 74
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2001
Abstract Text The paper considers the evolution of portfolio rules in markets with stationary returns and endogenous prices. The ultimate success of a portfolio rule is measured by the wealth share the rule is eventually able to conquer in competition with other portfolio rules. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for portfolio rules to be evolutionary stable. In the case of i.i.d. returns we identify a simple portfolio rule to be the unique evolutionary stable strategy. Moreover we demonstrate that mean-variance optimization is not evolutionary stable while the CAPM-rule always imitates the best portfolio rule and survives.
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