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Trust and the Choice between Housing and Financial Assets : Evidence from Spanish Households
El-Attar, Mayssun - 2010
. Combining these estimates with data on Spanish households' financial decisions from the Survey of Household Finances (EFF …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136779
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Trust and Trustworthiness Under the Prospect Theory : A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099719
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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia
Mariotti, Francesco - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051019
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071285
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Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
Salamanca, Nicolas - 2016
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977336
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013596
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Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices
Pinger, Pia R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918221
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Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment : A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2020
This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International … a centralized education system. We first document 'Vietnam advantage' in a wide-range of supply and demand …'t explain away Vietnam's positive deviance in PISA when compared to other participating developing and developed countries. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838481
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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition : The Role of Luck
Gill, David - 2010
We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141427
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014258262