Mis-Specifications in Portfolio Selection Problems

This paper presents theoretical and empirical results concerned with the question of mis-specification in normally distributed portfolio selection problems. These mis-specifications can occur in three areas: the investor’s utility function, and the mean vector and covariance matrix of the return distribution. Our results suggest that only the second type of error will create significant problems in applications.

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