Psychological Aspects of Market Crashes

R ≤ 11   ■ V

• ‘ ≤ β Ps, U-S-1)

for every security j as above. The right-hand side of Inequality (B) depends
on the parameters described in Proposition 3, together with the intertemporal
discount factor β and the coefficient of risk-aversion α. This last inequality
directly yields the numerical simulations presented in Section 4.

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