What are typical values for risk aversion parameters $\lambda$ used in mean-variance optimization? Please provide references.
Just to be clear, I'm talking about the $\lambda$ in $U(w) = w'\mu - \frac{\lambda}{2} w' \Sigma w$, the utility function in mean-variance optimization.
Answer
Typical risk aversion levels lie between one and ten.
See pages 11f. in the following paper:
Preferences by Andrew Ang
EDIT: Unfortunately the paper doesn't seem to be available online anymore. The final source is the following book:
If you know a way to access the above chapter legally please let me know in the comments, I will update the post accordingly (I leave the original link for now).
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