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Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice

Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022

Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...

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Belief Elicitation in Experiments : Is There a Hedging Problem?

Blanco, Mariana; Engelmann, Dirk; Koch, Alexander K.; … - 2021

existing belief elicitation results, (ii) can we avoid potential hedging confounds? Our results instill confidence regarding … both issues. We propose an experimental design that eliminates hedging opportunities, and use this to test for the … empirical relevance of hedging effects in the lab. We find no evidence for hedging, comparing the standard "hedging …

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Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market

Li, Wenchao - 2017

This paper bridges the financial market and the marriage market using a reference-dependent mechanism. Male-biased sex ratios induce families with sons to hold more risky assets, since competitive marital payment in a tight market raises the reference level of marriage expenditure for such...

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To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Sierminska, Eva - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk

Brown, Sarah - 2016

Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach – termed a deflated fractional ordered probit model –...

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Financial Advice and Household Financial Portfolios

Brown, Sarah; Bucciol, Alessandro; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2023

We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice is associated with a reallocation of wealth away from real estate and towards bonds and stocks, especially when households seek financial advice "for investments". Having a...

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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia

Mariotti, Francesco - 2014

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification …

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Circumstantial Risk : Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2014

This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to answer this question face identification issues due to self-selection into jobs that facilitate tax...

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On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Stark, Oded - 2019

We study the relative risk aversion of an individual with particular social preferences: his wellbeing is influenced by his relative wealth, and by how concerned he is about having low relative wealth. Holding constant the individual's absolute wealth, we obtain two results. First, if the...

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Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation

Bockerman, Petri - 2019

To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the Finnish Central Securities Depository over the period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed...

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