Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,814
Cover Image
Trust and the choice between housing and financial assets : evidence from Spanish households
Attar, Mayssun el; Poschke, Markus - 2010
. 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 effect of trust on expected investment returns affects portfolio … composition, including the share of real estate. Using data from the European Social Survey, we estimate individual-level trust as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153590
Cover Image
The impact of health insurance on stockholding : a regression discontinuity approach
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Sanz de … - 2014
coverage induces stockholding for those with at least some college education, but not for their less-educated counterparts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436274
Cover Image
Locus of control and investment in risky assets
Salamanca, Nicolás; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2016
possible confounders such as financial literacy, overconfidence, optimism, trust, and other personality traits. We argue that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594548
Cover Image
Do you even crypto, bro? : cryptocurrencies in household finance
Weber, Michael; Candia, Bernardo; Coibion, Olivier; … - 2023
Using repeated large-scale surveys of U.S. households, we study the cryptocurrency investment decisions and motives of households relative to other financial assets. Cryptocurrency holders tend to be young, white, male and more libertarian relative to non-crypto holders. They expect much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318228
Cover Image
The financial decisions of immigrant and native households : evidence from Italy
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018
Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but only above the median of the wealth distribution, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950811
Cover Image
Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765617
Cover Image
On the origins of risk-taking
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015
stronger influence on risk-taking by children, and the evidence of a relationship between stock-holding of biological parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295557
Cover Image
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 is associated with a reallocation of wealth away from real estate and towards bonds and stocks, especially when households seek financial advice "for investments". Having a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517212
Cover Image
Social interaction and stock market participation : evidence from British panel data
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2010
This paper uses data from the British National Child Development Study to investigate the relationship between social interaction and participation in the stock market through holding stocks and/or shares at the individual level. In accordance with the existing literature, the results reveal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958900
Cover Image
Household finances and social interaction : Bayesian analysis of household panel data
Brown, Sarah; Ghosh, Pulak; Taylor, Karl - 2014
We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between a wide range of aspects of household finances and social interaction, rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380024