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men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …
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stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …
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Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the cross-section and over time. In this paper …, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …
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greater risk. By exploiting the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act 2012 as an exogenous tax shock, we observe that … co-investing fund managers increase risk-taking by 8%. Specifically, these managers adjust their portfolios by investing …
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The beta dispersion, which is the spread of betas on a stock market, can be interpreted as a measure of market vulnerability. This study examines the economic idea of the beta dispersion and its application as a market return predictor. Based on the empirical beta dispersion observed in the US...
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choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that … risk taking is not affected by the choice being observed by a matched participant. Nor do investments follow elicited norms …
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We study an investment experiment with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable external...
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This paper sheds new light on herding of institutional investors by using a unique database that identifies every transaction made by financial institutions in the German stock market. First, the analysis reveals that herding behavior of institutions occurs daily. Second, replication of the...
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We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable...
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, it identifies the presence of some systematic bias. We further investigate the measure’s comparative statics regarding …
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