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During the past few decades, the fraction of the equity market owned directly by individuals declined significantly. The same period witnessed investment trends that include the growth of indexing as well as shifts by active managers toward lower fees and more index-like investing. I develop an...
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This paper studies household financial choices: why are these decisions dependent on the education level of the … household? A life cycle model is constructed to understand a rich set of facts about decisions of households with different …
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This paper studies the implications of household financial choices for the effects of monetary policy on consumption … heterogeneity in consumption responses, monetary policy, operating through its effects on household income and asset market returns …
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pattern to irrationality, particularly overconfidence. In contrast, we find that household financial choices generated from a …
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This paper studies household financial choices: why are these decisions dependent on the education level of the … household? A life-cycle model is constructed to understand a rich set of facts about decisions of households with different …, education affects household finance mainly through increased average income. The estimation also finds evidence that higher …
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This paper uses a lifecycle model to study household finance in China, focusing on the high savings rate, the low stock … estimation of structural parameters, and examine their impacts on household finance patterns. Relative to the US, the distinctive …
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-convex portfolio adjustment costs. The goal is to understand a household's response to income and return shocks. The model includes the … multiple assets, a household can buffer some income fluctuations through the asset without adjustment costs and engage in …
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We empirically analyze the nature of returns to scale in active mutual fund management. We find strong evidence of decreasing returns at the industry level: As the size of the active mutual fund industry increases, a fund's ability to outperform passive benchmarks declines. At the fund level,...
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We model optimal fund turnover in the presence of time-varying profit opportunities. Our model predicts a positive relation between an active fund's turnover and its subsequent benchmark-adjusted return. We find such a relation for equity mutual funds. This time-series relation between turnover...
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We argue that active management's popularity is not puzzling despite the industry's poor track record. Our explanation features decreasing returns to scale: As the industry's size increases, every manager's ability to outperform passive benchmarks declines. The poor track record occurred before...
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