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Risk Aversion under Preference Uncertainty

Kraeussl, Roman; Lucas, Andre; Siegmann, Arjen - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility functions. We illustrate the consequences of this...

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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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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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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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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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Credit Cycles and Macro Fundamentals

Koopman, Siem Jan; Kraeussl, Roman; Lucas, Andre; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We study the relation between the credit cycle and macro-economic fundamentals in an intensity-based framework. Using rating transition and default data of U.S. corporates from Standard and Poor’s over the period 1980—2005 we directly estimate the credit cycle from the micro rating data. We...

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The Multi-State Latent Factor Intensity Model for Credit Rating Transitions

Koopman, Siem Jan; Lucas, André; Monteiro, André - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

A new empirical reduced-form model for credit rating transitions is introduced. It is a parametric intensity-based duration model with multiple states and driven by exogenous covariates and latent dynamic factors. The model has a generalized semi-Markov structure designed to accommodate many of...

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