Portfolio choice and the effects of liquidity


Autoria(s): González, Ana; Rubio, Gonzalo
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

05/06/2007

Resumo

This paper shows how to introduce liquidity into the well known mean-variance framework of portfolio selection. Either by estimating mean-variance liquidity constrained frontiers or directly estimating optimal portfolios for alternative levels of risk aversion and preference for liquidity, we obtain strong effects of liquidity on optimal portfolio selection. In particular, portfolio performance, measured by the Sharpe ratio relative to the tangency portfolio, varies significantly with liquidity. Moreover, although mean-variance performance becomes clearly worse, the levels of liquidity onoptimal portfolios obtained when there is a positive preference for liquidity are much lower than on those optimal portfolios where investors show no sign of preference for liquidity.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10230/428

Idioma(s)

eng

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Palavras-Chave #Management and Organization Studies #liquidity #mean-variance frontiers #performance #portfolio selection
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper