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How money relates to value? : an empirical examination on gold, silver and bitcoin
Alves, José; Gonçalves, João Quental - 2022
our problem allowing us to ask how old forms of money such as Gold and Silver hold up in today's world regarding their …. We analyse price dynamics from 1980 to 2020 for gold and silver resorting to annual data. Regarding bitcoin we employ …
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The changing patterns of investment in the PRC economy
Holz, Carsten A. - 2017
The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and … ultimately unsustainable. But largely unnoticed, a shift has taken place. This paper examines the changes in investment patterns … economy-wide data with various breakdown. Significant shifts in investment patterns across sectors and ownership forms have …
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Understanding PRC investment statistics
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of … dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly … understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned economy, comes with severe limitations in terms of data coverage and …
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Swedish equity mutual funds 1993-2013 : performance, persistence and presence of skill
Flam, Harry; Vestman, Roine - 2017
Actively managed Swedish equity mutual funds outperform the market in 1993-2001 but have negative gross and net excess returns of -0.18 and -1.47 per cent per year in 2002-2013. Across funds, there is no correlation between activism and return in the later period. Returns show little or no...
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Measuring alpha in the fund management industry : do female managers perform better?
Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in...
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Social preferences and portfolio choice
Riedl, Arno; Smeets, Paul - 2013
This paper explores whether social preferences influence portfolio choices of retail investors. We use administrative investor trading records which we link to decisions of the same investors in experiments with real money at stake. We show that social preferences rather than return expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189840
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Decomposing the disposition effect
Maier, Johannes K.; Fischer, Dominik Simon - 2021
We theoretically show that there is a fundamental disconnect between the disposition effect, i.e., investors’ tendency to sell winning assets too early and losing assets too late, and its common empirical measure, namely a positive difference between the proportion of gains and losses...
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Tax-exempt investors and the asset allocation puzzle
Mintz, Jack M.; Smart, Michael - 2000
Investors frequently hold equity in tax-exempt savings vehicles such as pension plans, despite the prediction of the standard model that they hold only bonds. We provide a new explanation for this empirical puzzle based on differences between pensions and taxable assets in the tax treatment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781516
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Tenure choice, portfolio structure and long-term care : optimal risk management in retirement
Fehr, Hans; Hofmann, Maurice - 2019
We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050806
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The standard portfolio choice problem in Germany
Huck, Steffen; Schmidt, Tobias; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2015
We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a …
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