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To own or not to own? : household portfolios, demographics and institutions in a cross-national perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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Divestment and engagement : the effect of green investors on corporate carbon emissions

Kahn, Matthew E.; Matsusaka, John G.; Shu, Chong - 2023

This paper studies whether green investors can influence corporate greenhouse gas emissions through capital markets, either by divesting their stock and limiting polluters' access to capital, or holding polluters' stock and engaging with management. We focus on public pension funds, classifying...

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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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Locus of control and savings

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2013

This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a psychological concept that captures individuals' beliefs about the controllability of life events and is a...

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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 participation decision (whether or not to diversify at all) is jointly estimated with the decision of how much to diversify. In so doing, recent literature on the modelling of...

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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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Early health, risk aversion and stock market participation

Böckerman, Petri; Conlin, Andrew; Svento, Rauli - 2019

To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the Finnish Central Securities Depository over the period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed...

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Locus of control and consistent investment choices

Pinger, Pia; Schäfer, Sebastian; Schumacher, Heiner - 2018

We document that an internal locus of control can be hindering in financial market situations, where short-term outcomes are determined by chance. The reason is that internally controlled individuals may tend to (over-)react to random outcomes. Our evidence is based on an experiment in which...

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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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The determinants of China's international portfolio equity allocations

Agarwal, Isha; Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2020

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows … enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant impact on global financial markets as China continues to open up its … foreign portfolio allocations, Chinese IIs overweight sectors in which China has a comparative disadvantage. Moreover, Chinese …

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