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Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding

Binswanger, Johannes; Salm, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the relationship between subjective probabilities of future stock market returns and decisions about stockholding. Specifically, we examine whether acting upon subjective probabilities is confined to individuals with high cognitive skills. We explore this question using data from...

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A new integral for capacities

Lehrer, Ehud - EconWPA - 2005

A new integral for capacities, different from the Choquet integral, is introduced and characterized. The main feature of the new integral is concavity, which might be interpreted as uncertainty aversion. The integral is then extended to fuzzy capacities, which assign subjective expected values...

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The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking

Kuhnen, Camelia; Knutson, Brian - EconWPA - 2005

Investors systematically deviate from rationality when making financial decisions, yet the mechanisms responsible for these deviations have not been identified. Using event-related fMRI, we examined whether anticipatory neural activity would predict optimal and suboptimal choices in a financial...

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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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Performance analysis of international mutual funds incorporating market frictions

ter Horst, Jenke; Nijman, Theo; de Roon, F.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

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Decision Making in the Pension Fund Board Room : An Experiment with Dutch Pension Fund Trustees

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, K.; Koedijk, C.G.; Slager, A.M.H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We ask how pension fund trustees deal with the booms and busts that funds encounter, and to what extent the decisions of pension fund trustees are affected by behavioral biases. We examine these issues by using a vignette-method field experiment among Dutch pension fund trustees. We find that...

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Finance and Growth for Microenterprises : Evidence from Rural China

Beck, Thorsten; Lu, L.; Yang, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: Using a survey dataset of Chinese rural households, we find that access to external finance is positively … associated with the decision to become entrepreneur, the initial investment for microenterprises and the use of external finance …. Also, we find that the use of informal finance is positively associated with sales growth of microenterprises with …

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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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IMPROVING VALUE-AT-RISK ESTIMATES BY COMBINING KERNEL ESTIMATION WITH HISTORICAL SIMULATION

Butler, J. S.; Schachter, Barry - EconWPA - 1996

In this paper we develop an improvement on one of the more popular methods for Value-at-Risk measurement, the historical simulation approach. The procedure we employ is the following: First, the density of the return on a portfolio is estimated using a non-parametric method, called a Gaussian...

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To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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