This paper investigates the financial risk-taking behavior of pension funds since 2000. I assemble a new database containing portfolio holdings of more than 100 pension funds from 14 advanced economies. The study reveals three key findings. First, I show that pension fund portfolios have become...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many new individual investors globally entered the stock markets, often pursuing speculative investment strategies that resemble gambling. A concern is that trading as a form of gambling can become addictive for some people, as documented by several recent studies...

Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral...

I propose here the psychological attraction theory of financial regulation—that regulation is the result of psychological biases on the part of political participants—voters, politicians, bureaucrats, and media commentators; and of regulatory ideologies that exploit these biases. Some key...

This study develops a life-cycle model to predict an overlapping generations economy comprising heterogeneous agents. In the proposed model, ex-ante heterogeneity involves the work probability, survival rate, subjective discount rate, and intertemporal elasticity of substitution. We observe...

How much of a difference do smart trading strategies, stock choice, and lending securities to short sellers reduce the net expenses of Vanguard’s index ETFs below their reported expense ratios? Using Vanguard’s reported returns for their index ETFs and their benchmarks I discover the return...

We look into determinants (volatility, crises, sentiment and the U.S. ‘fear’ index) of herding using BRICS as our sample. Investors herd selectively to crises and herding is a short-lived phenomenon. Herding was highest during the global financial crisis (only China was affected). There was...

Investment managers are continuously looking for new technologies and better ideas to enhance their results of higher returns on investments in stock trading, and with the successes machine learning methods have been recording in other fields, it has been attracting the full attention of...

Abstract: How important is the experience of risk in business endeavors for self-respect and moral development? Tomasi (2012) prompts this question with his attempt to reconcile Rawls’s (1971) theory of justice as fairness with free-market capitalism, by claiming that economic activity is a...

This study examines the ways in which the heterogeneity of elevation or curvature in probability weighting affects investors’ market participation and the equity premium. We analyze the rank-dependence utility with the generalized Wang transform (GWT) as an inverse S-shaped weighting function....

The purpose of this study is to investigate the salient factors that influence Indonesian cryptocurrency owners in making their investment decision. This study employs intergroup bias, subjective norms, overborrowing, and spending control to explain cryptocurrency investment behavior. The...

Though ample empirical evidence demonstrates the relationship between objective financial literacy and retirement planning, we have a limited understanding of the role of individuals' subjective financial literacy in their retirement planning. In this study, we examine how individuals' financial...

This paper aims to investigate market participants' reactions to sequential information, presenting firm-specific news and market-wide information. Experimental study takes place in the COVID-19 pandemic era, as market-wide information representation. We also provide firm-specific information in...

The subject of this study is loyalty programs, The aim of the article is to draw attention to loyalty in the current economy, The purpose of the article is to examine the evolution of loyalty pro- grams offered to consumers and investors, The study will cover the issue of building a loyal base...

While ChatGPT's linguistic capabilities have recently seen an explosion of interest in a variety of fields, its potential in finance, particularly investment, remains unexplored. The study examined ChatGPT's efficacy in selecting asset classes and evaluating diversification effects using a...

As the world confronts an urgent climate crisis, corporations are under increasing pressure to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In place of genuine effort, many public companies have made climate pledges that they are not on track to fulfill. Further, despite the very real...

We investigate the role of alumni ties in university endowments' decision to invest into private equity funds. Based on a sample of 1,590 commitments made by 189 U.S. endowments into 613 funds during the period of 1995 to 2017, we show that endowments are more likely to invest into funds that...

This applied research paper is written by Yinghua Fan (City University of Hong Kong), Guanhao Feng (City University of Hong Kong) and Dashan Huang (Singapore Management University).This paper exploits a unique scheme of the China Stock Connect for daily-level and stock-level holdings of...

Gil–Bazo and Ruiz–Verdú (2009) show that fund families strategically exploit the low performance sensitivity of investors, i.e., investors’ low elasticity of demand with respect to performance, to increase fund fees. Given that environmentally, socially and governance (ESG) focused...

This study investigates whether internet articles, such as blog or internet community posts, enhance investors’ ability to process uncertain news (i.e., rumors). Using the unique disclosure requirement in Korea, which verifies rumors by firms’ disclosures, we identify trading activities...

The fierce aerospace competition between superpowers results in a strong public attention to satellite launch events in the U.S. Under limited attentional resources, U.S. investors allocate their attention more to market-level shocks than firm-specific shocks, making stock returns to comove more...

Is the formation of investor cliques associated with superior fund performance? Our analysis of more than 2,000 private equity real estate (PERE) funds over three decades reveals outstanding performance among PERE funds dominated by investor cliques. Specifically, cliques with a more extensive...

We examine how the return predictability of deep learning models varies with stocks’ vulnerability to investors’ behavioral biases. Using an extensive list of anomaly variables, we find that the long-short strategy based on deep learning signals generates greater returns for stocks more...

Brokers have access to order-flow data, which they can use to enhance the returns they earn from short selling. However, brokers also have a fiduciary duty to place their clients’ interests before their own. We test whether brokers exploit their informational advantage and earn larger returns...

This study examines the relationship between the weather and intraday investor sentiment. Our results indicate that high temperatures, high humidity, high cloud coverage, and extreme rain negatively affect investors’ moods, whereas high winds and long sunshine durations improve their moods....

In this testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on February 1, 1989 (when LBOs and other highly leveraged transactions were under fierce attack by politicians and the media), the author identified “LBO associations” such as KKR and Forstmann Little as a valuable innovation in...

Exchanges and index providers increasingly push firms to equalize shareholder voting rights. We explore the potential harm arising from dual-class structures by studying the identity and returns of minority shareholders. First, we find that sophisticated investors disproportionately own...