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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 …

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

Attar, Mayssun el; Poschke, Markus - 2010

. Combining these estimates with data on Spanish households' financial decisions from the Survey of Household Finances (EFF …

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Household asset holding diversification in Australia

Mariotti, Francesco; Mumford, Karen; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - 2014

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … doing, recent literature on the modelling of proportions is combined with the growing body of research concerning household …

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Financial advice and household financial portfolios

Brown, Sarah; Bucciol, Alessandro; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2021

We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice …

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Does education improve financial outcomes? : evidence from stock market and retirement accounts in Türkiye

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Ersan, Yasar - 2025

We examine the causal effect of education on financial outcomes related to stock markets and retirement savings, leveraging a major compulsory school reform and a unique data set covering the universe of investors in Türkiye. The estimates show no effects on participation rates, portfolio...

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Does social pension insurance increase the efficiency of household financial portfolios?

Liu, Xueying; Zhao, Zhong - 2024

This study investigates the impact of social pension insurance on the efficiency of household financial portfolios …, utilizing data from the 2019 wave of the China Household Finance Survey. Our findings indicate that social pension insurance … significantly enhances the efficiency of household financial portfolios, partly through the channels of risk attitude and …

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Higher-order beliefs and risky asset holdings

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Yin, Xiao - 2024

We combine a customized survey and randomized controlled trial (RCT) to study the effect of higher-order beliefs on U.S. retail investors' portfolio allocations. We find that investors' higher-order beliefs about stock market returns are correlated with but distinct from their first-order...

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Who cares about investing responsibly? : attitudes and financial decisions

Montagnoli, Alberto; Taylor, Karl - 2024

The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we investigate the determinants of individual's attitudes towards investing responsibly, based upon Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations. Secondly, we look at how important ESG considerations are, over and above socio-economic...

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Proud to not own stocks : how identity shapes financial decisions

Henkel, Luca; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2023

This paper introduces a key factor influencing households' decision to invest in the stock market: how people view stockholders. Using surveys we conducted with nearly 8,500 individuals from eleven countries, we document that a large majority of respondents view stockholders negatively - they...

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The financial decisions of immigrant and native households : evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018

with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but …

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