We design, field and exploit survey data from a representative sample of the French population to examine whether informative social interactions enter households'stockholding decisions. Re- spondents report perceptions about their circle of peers with whom they interact about financial matters,...

The existence of an equity premium puzzle has been largely emphasized in the empirical literature: one observes low risky assets holding that the standard portfolio choice model (with expected and discounting utility and homothetic preferences) is not able to explain. Besides modifications of...

We design, field and exploit survey data from a representative sample of the French population to examine whether informative social interactions enter households'stockholding decisions. Respondents report perceptions about their circle of peers with whom they interact about financial matters,...

Following recent developments in the literature about portfolio choices (Flavin and Yamashita, 2002; Cocco, 2004; Yao and Zhang, 2005), this paper analyses the empirical link between stockholding and housing wealth. We use the French wealth survey (Enquête Patrimoine2004, Insee) that give us detailed...