We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a …

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

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 …

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

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

prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life …, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the heterogeneity in … household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices differ …

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …

Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey this paper examines the …