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Trust and the Choice between Housing and Financial Assets : Evidence from Spanish Households

El-Attar, Mayssun - 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 …

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The Coming Wave : Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?

Karolyi, George Andrew - 2015

We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...

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Financial Advice and Household Financial Portfolios

Brown, Sarah; Bucciol, Alessandro; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2023

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...

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Social Interaction and Stock Market Participation : Evidence from British Panel Data

Brown, Sarah - 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...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023

with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative … behavioral data from a social dilemmaexperiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust correlate … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …

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Mortgage Indebtedness and Household Financial Distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2010

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in Southern countries, France and Belgium, where fewer households have a mortgage outstanding relative to...

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Locus of Control and Savings

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 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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Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets

Salamanca, Nicolas - 2016

possible confounders such as financial literacy, overconfidence, optimism, trust, and other personality traits. We argue that …

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Social Interactions and Stigmatized Behavior : "Donating" Blood Plasma in Rural China

Chen, Xi - 2018

Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare, largely due to the formidable challenges of collecting data on stigmatized goods and services. In this paper, we add to...

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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Gaechter, Simon - 2009

We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...

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