Using data from a national survey of nearly 2000 mutual fund investors, we investigate whether
investor gender is related to risk taking as revealed in mutual fund investment decisions. …

Although auctions have been examined extensively in economics, and to some degree in
marketing, on‐line auctions are only beginning to receive research attention. Further, in both …

This paper examines the impact of seller strategy on winning prices in online auctions. In
our conceptual model, three strategic choices made by the seller – minimum opening price, …

… Gilkeson is a PhD. candidate at Duke University; Smith holds the H. Talmage Dobbs, J r.,
Chair of Finance at Geor~ gia State University and is a visiting scholar in the Atlanta F ed’s …

The embedded options found in some securities are known to have significant impact on
product pricing, secondary market valuation, and risk measurement and management. The …

… Much of the work in this article was completed when Gilkeson was a graduate student at
the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and on the faculty of North Carolina Central …

Retail certificates of deposit contain an early withdrawal option allowing investors (depositors)
to sell them back to banks in exchange for their face value less a prespecified withdrawal …

The last two decades have witnessed a tremendous growth in the volume of assets and
liabilities whose cash flows depend, in a variety of ways, on the path of interest rates. Some of …

… Gilkeson is an assistant professor of finance at the ' University of Central Florida, Jacob is
the director of research at Hyperion Capital Management,1nc., and Smith holds the H. …

Risk budgeting appears to bridge the gap between two important concepts in modern
portfolio management: ex ante total return-risk portfolio optimization and ex post performance …