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Investment Choices: Indivisible non-Marketable Assets and Bounded Rationality

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  • Pierpaolo Pattitoni

    (Department of Management, University of Bologna, Italy)

  • Marco Savioli

    (Department of Economics, University of Siena, Italy; Faculty of Economics-Rimini, University of Bologna, Italy; The Rimini Centre for Economic Research (RCEA), Italy)

Abstract

Several investment decisions deal with non-marketable assets. Nonmarketable assets are available only to one investor and are often indivisible. This has relevant consequences on investor investment opportunities. Adhering to a mean variance representation of the investment space and considering a non-marketable asset (divisible or not), we derive some possible investment scenarios an investor may face. Furthermore, we show how bounded rationality affects investor portfolio choices. Our results define a set of conditions under which the non-marketable asset represents a good investment and show that, under certain assumptions, the efficient frontier exhibits non-linearities and intervals of discontinuity. That allows us to classify investors who can access a non-marketable investment as either entrepreneurs, who undertake it, or clerks, who invest their entire wealth on the market.

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  • Pierpaolo Pattitoni & Marco Savioli, 2011. "Investment Choices: Indivisible non-Marketable Assets and Bounded Rationality," Working Paper series 07_11, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
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    Keywords

    Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions; Asset Indivisibility; Non-marketable Assets; Bounded Rationality;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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