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Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences approach with entropy balancing to account …

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Skewness expectations and portfolio choice

Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022

with the skewness of respondents' return expectations for the respective asset, controlling for other moments of a …

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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

favourable to the market economy. Two parameters that govern this capacity to learn are social entropy and heritability. Social … entropy defines how predictable one's occupation is as a function of one's beliefs. Heritability is the weight of the family …'s beliefs in the determination of the priors of a new generation. Both heritability and social entropy reduce the bias and makes …

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Inequality and the GB2 income distribution

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor) - 2007

The generalized entropy class of inequality indices is derived for Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income …

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Trust and the choice between housing and financial assets : evidence from Spanish households

Attar, Mayssun el; Poschke, Markus - 2010

Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the dominant component of households' portfolios, real estate. In a simple model, we show how the...

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Remittances and portfolio values : an inquiry using Spanish immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2012

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest trans-nationally given the networks that immigrants are...

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Locus of control and investment in risky assets

Salamanca, Nicolás; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2016

We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and possible confounders such as financial literacy,...

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Business education and portfolio returns

Altmejd, Adam; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan - 2024

Using university admission cutoffs that generate exogenous variation in college-major choices, we provide causal evidence that enrollment in a business or economics program leads individuals to invest significantly more in the stock market, earn higher portfolio returns, and ultimately...

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The economics of dual job holding : a job portfolio model of labor supply

Renna, Francesco (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we develop a job portfolio model of dual job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. We derive the associated Slutsky equation components. Because the job portfolio model applies only to unconstrained dual jobholders, we separate individuals who moonlight because of an...

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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses

Teulings, Coen N. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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