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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 98, Issue 5, Pages 2066-2100Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.5.2066
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We study the asset pricing implications of Tversky and Kahneman's (1992) cumulative prospect theory, with a particular focus on its probability weighting component. Our main result, derived from a novel equilibrium with nonunique global optima, is that, in contrast to the prediction of a standard expected utility model, a security's own skewness can be priced: a positively skewed security can be overpriced and can earn a negative average excess return. We argue that our analysis offers a unifying way of thinking about a number of seemingly unrelated financial phenomena.
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