We study the effects of broadband internet use on the portfolio selection of individual investors. A public program in … Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use … internet seems to induce individual investors to make better financial decisions and hence leads to a "democratization of …

We study the effects of broadband internet use on the portfolio selection of individual investors. A public program in … Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use … internet seems to induce individual investors to make better financial decisions and hence leads to a "democratization of …

We study the effects of broadband internet use on the investment decisions of individual investors. A public program in … Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use … increase their trading activity in stocks. Overall, access to high-speed internet seems to spur a 'democratization of finance …

We study the effects of broadband internet use on the investment decisions of individual investors. A public program in … Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use … increase their trading activity in stocks. Overall, access to high-speed internet seems to spur a "democratization of finance …