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title: Portfolio Choice Mental Framing Effects
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5216342/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5216342
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5216342
featured: 2025-04-16
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Portfolio Choice Mental Framing Effects

The study reveals systematic decision errors in dynamic portfolio choice, highlighting the importance of problem framing and supporting a libertarian paternalistic approach to choice architecture design.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5216342
- Identifier: SSRN 5216342
- Released: 2025-04-14
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 93 (2025-04-16): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-16/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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