We study the effect of variation in correlation on investment decision in an experimental two asset application. Comparison of allocations across problems suggests that subjects neglect probabilistic information on the joint distribution of returns and base their allocations on the observed...

We analyze the impact role of advertising on the net inflows of pension funds, using a unique database that includes monthly information, asset allocation and the Flow of Funds (FoF) for all the pension funds in Israel. We also obtain the monthly $-value advertising per fund. Using these...

In this paper, we show that institutional investors, like pension funds, may outperform standard market portfolio benchmarks. These results agree with contemporary research on pension funds' performance. Yet, the current research does not explain why do pension funds are able to outperform the...

We question the impact of the Venture Capital industry on its hosting economy. This area is rarely explored because 90% of the VC investments are in the US and other large economies, wherein the impact of the VC is too small to be measured. Israel presents a unique case in which the activity of...

The VC industry provides an excellent example for an industry that is based on the ability to bring together ideas and high-risk capital in a process that generates value. Of particular interest is the case where the entrepreneurs reside in one country and the investors reside in another...

When households make financial decisions, one may expect them to be both informative and rational – just as any other financial agent. In this paper, we question whether this hypothesis is error-free and correct by using a unique large-scale event study. Our results do not support the axioms...

For many years accounting was based on historical data while finance was based on expected future data. This difference creates a gap between accounting and finance regarding issues like the values of assets held by companies and liabilities, including equity, issued by them. IFRS in general and...

In this paper we study long-term learning process under the conditions of ambiguous information. We study a unique empirical setting in which pieces of the ambiguous information are sequentially provided to institutional investors. We use parametric and non-parametric models to show that the...