Market Selection and Survival of Investment Strategies

Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 91

23 Pages Posted: 14 Nov 2001

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Rabah Amir

University of Arizona - Department of Economics; University of Arizona

Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

The University of Manchester - Department of Economics

Igor V. Evstigneev

University of Manchester - Economics, School of Social Sciences

Thorsten Hens

University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance; Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH); Swiss Finance Institute

Date Written: October 2001

Abstract

The paper analyzes the process of market selection of investment strategies in an incomplete asset market. The pay offs of the assets depend on random factors described in terms of a discrete-time Markov process. Market participants make dynamic investment decisions based on their observations and time. We show that a trader distributing wealth across available assets according to the relative expected returns eventually accumulates the entire market wealth. The result obtains under the assumption that the trader's strategy is asymptotically distinct from the CAPM strategy (prescribing investment in the market portfolio). This assumption turns out to be essentially necessary for the conclusion.

Keywords: evolutionary finance, portfolio theory, investment strategies, CAPM, market selection, incomplete markets

JEL Classification: D52, D81, D83, G11

Suggested Citation

Amir, Rabah and Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner and Evstigneev, Igor V. and Hens, Thorsten, Market Selection and Survival of Investment Strategies (October 2001). Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 91, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=290912 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.290912

Rabah Amir (Contact Author)

University of Arizona - Department of Economics ( email )

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Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

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Igor V. Evstigneev

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Thorsten Hens

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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH)

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Swiss Finance Institute

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Switzerland

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