Risk-Free Versus Risky Assets: Teaching a Portfolio Model with Application to the Stock Market

In this paper, we present an application where advanced undergraduate students can solve the expected utility portfolio model with a risk-free asset and a risky asset with both up and down returns in the stock market. With real stock market data, we use Excel Solver to find the portfolio decision an...

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Autores: Berga, Dolors, Silva Becerra, José Ignacio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/24869
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/24869
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Borsa de valors
Stock exchanges
Risc
Risk
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Sumario:In this paper, we present an application where advanced undergraduate students can solve the expected utility portfolio model with a risk-free asset and a risky asset with both up and down returns in the stock market. With real stock market data, we use Excel Solver to find the portfolio decision and study how it changes when considering assets with different returns. Finally, we test students’ portfolio decisions and their degree of risk aversion using different utility functions