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17 avril 2023
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Christopher P. Chambers et al., « Non-diversified portfolios with subjective expected utility », arXiv - économie
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Although diversification is the typical strategy followed by risk-averse investors, non-diversified positions that allocate all resources to a single asset, state of the world or revenue stream are common too. Focusing on demand under uncertainty, we first clarify how this kind of behavior is compatible with risk-averse subjective expected utility maximization under beliefs that assign a strictly positive probability to every state. We then show that whenever finitely many non-diversified choices are rationalizable in this way under some such beliefs and risk-averse preferences, they are simultaneously rationalizable under the *same* beliefs by many qualitatively distinct risk-averse as well as risk-seeking and risk-neutral preferences.