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Conditions Ensuring the Decomposition of Asset Demand for All Risk-Averse Investors

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  • Kais Dachraoui
  • Georges Dionne

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The paper explores how the demand for a risky asset can be decomposed into an investment effect and a hedging effect by all risk-averse investors. This question has been shown to be complex when considered outside of the mean-variance framework. Dependence among returns on the risky assets is restricted to quadrant dependence and it is found that the demand for one risky asset can be decomposed into an investment component based on the risk premium offered by the asset and a hedging component used against the fluctuations in the return on the other risky asset. The paper also discusses how the class of quadrant-dependent distributions is related to that of two-fund separating distributions. This contribution opens up the search for broader distributional hypotheses suitable to asset demand models. Examples are discussed.

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  • Kais Dachraoui & Georges Dionne, 2007. "Conditions Ensuring the Decomposition of Asset Demand for All Risk-Averse Investors," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(5), pages 397-404.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:13:y:2007:i:5:p:397-404
    DOI: 10.1080/13518470601025326
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    Keywords

    Portfolio choice; investment effect; hedging effect; quadrant dependence; two-fund separation; Asset demand model;
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    JEL classification:

    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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