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Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...
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This study appraises the role of gender in the behavior of individuals who make risky investments. The analysis bases … studies, I find no evidence for gender differences. Males and females exhibit similar levels of risk propensity and their …
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through gender perspective and their fields of interest. Women and men field of interest is defined by enabling online … magazines' article's themes. The aim of this paper is to investigate gender-based behavioural differences in investment …
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This paper examines the relationship between overconfidence and losses from under-diversification among Dutch investors. We find that a lack of proper portfolio diversification is positively associated with overconfidence. Part of this relationship is mediated through the lower propensity of...
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An unprecedented number of investors are giving their financial advisors a mandate for socially responsible investing (SRI). Yet, the impact of SRI mandates on consumers is unclear. In a pre-registered lab-in-the-field experiment with 345 professional advisors, we find that advisors charge a...
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We relate time-varying aggregate ambiguity (V-VSTOXX) to individual investor trading. We use the trading records of more than 100,000 individual investors from a large German online brokerage from March 2010 to December 2015. We find that an increase in ambiguity is associated with increased...
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Using analysts' stock recommendations this paper shows gender heterogeneity in investment advice. The odds for female … cannot profit from the observed gender differences. Comparing monthly rebalanced portfolios of stocks recommended by female … analysts and by male analysts, we conclude that the investor can not convert the observed gender differences in recommendations …
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reveal typical gender differences but also detect divergence to their German counterparts. While disclosing Italian …
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