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Many previous experiments have found that participants invest more in risky assets if they (i) see their returns less frequently, (ii) see portfolio-level returns (rather than individual asset-by-asset returns), or (iii) see long-horizon (rather than one-year) historical asset class return...
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decisions. The Big Five personality traits correlate with investors' beliefs about the stock market and economy, risk …
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We document a causal effect of social interactions on investor behavior using the number of local soccer games as a measure of social interaction intensity. Social transmission is identifiable in buy but not sell trades. The effect of Social Interaction Intensity (SII) on the sensitivity of...
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We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality monitoring stations in India. Using a triple-differences framework, we show that retail investors' investments in "brown" stocks are negatively related to local air pollution...
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with empirical evidence, the model shows that (a) value stocks are those with higher cash-flow risk; (b) the size of the … value premium is larger in "bad times," due to time variation in risk preferences; (c) the unconditional CAPM fails, because …
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We propose a framework where perceptions of uncertainty are driven by the interaction between cognitive constraints and the way that people learn about it--whether information is presented sequentially or simultaneously. People can learn about uncertainty by observing the distribution of...
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their responsible workers, and in turn engage in CSR through self-regulation, provided that regulatory oversight is poor … enough - and hence regulation is loose enough - to make self-regulation worthwhile. The key prediction of the model is a … gas emissions disclosure in all public firms. Consistent with our theory, we find that firms in the UK receive lower CSR …
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is partially segmented from other financial markets: the prices of short-rate and bond supply risk are set by specialized …
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, we document that they are more likely to invest in disadvantaged areas and nascent industries and exhibit more risk …
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Portfolio optimization focuses on risk and return prediction, yet implementation costs critically matter. Predicting …
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