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The Influence of Design Costs on Investments in Individual Savings Accounts

van de Ven, Justin - 2013

This study considers the efficacy of a tax incentivised savings scheme in context of decision making rigidities …. Analysis is based on a classical life-cycle model of savings and investment decisions, augmented with a salience cost over … participation in Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) currently run in the UK. Calibration results indicate that salience costs help …

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Financial Literacy, Pension Planning, and Investment Behavior - A Comparative Study between Austria and Switzerland

Aubram, Tatjana - 2016

This paper analyzes the impacts of financial literacy on the investment and pension planning behavior in Austria and Switzerland. Based on survey data of 449 individuals from Austria and Switzerland, we first analyze which socio-demographic and country-specific factors determine financial...

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Billions on the sidewalk : improving savings by reducing investment mistakes

Panizza, Ugo - 2015

This paper contributes the on-going debate on income inequality in advanced economies with a proposal aimed at reducing costly investment mistakes that are prevalent among middle-class households. The paper starts by describing how households should invest, compares it with what we know about...

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Empirical evidence of household saving objectives : a demographical comparison

Chakraborty, Suman; Digal, Sabat Kumar - In: GITAM journal of management : a quarterly publication … 14 (2016) 1, pp. 38-53

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Why do households leave money on the table? : the case of subsidized pension products

Meyll, Tobias; Pauls, Thomas; Walter, Andreas - In: The journal of behavioral finance : a publication of … 21 (2020) 3, pp. 266-283

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Trust and retirement preparedness : evidence from Singapore

Koh, Benedict S. K.; Mitchell, Olivia S.; Fong, Joelle H. - In: Journal of the economics of ageing 18 (2021), pp. 1-10

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Mislearning and (poor) performance of individual investors

Villatoro, Félix; Fuentes, Olga; Riutort, Julio; … - In: Journal of pension economics and finance : JPEF 23 (2024) 1, pp. 30-52

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The Causal Influence of Investment Goals on the Disposition Effect

Wierzbitzki, Marc - 2019

The disposition effect describes investors' tendency to realize gains more frequently than losses. While it is one of the most robust findings in finance research and there is an extensive body of literature examining its theoretical foundation, relatively little attention so far has been paid...

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Investment Losses and Inequality

Wenzel, Maximilian - 2019

, select countries with detailed information on household portfolios. In this paper we use a modified version of the Global … Capital Asset Pricing Model (GCAPM), which relies on classed household portfolio data to measure investment performance in …

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The drivers of investment and savings rates : an exploratory note

Sen, Kunal - In: Transnational corporations : investment and development 30 (2023) 3, pp. 91-99

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