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We show that the stock market may fail to aggregate information even if it appears to be efficient, and that the resulting decrease in the information content of prices may drastically reduce welfare. We solve a macroeconomic model in which information about fundamentals is dispersed and...
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Households hold nondiversified stock portfolios of firms headquartered near their city of residence. Explanations assign a causal role for proximity, either in generating an informational advantage or a familiarity bias. Empirical analyses assume households locate randomly, even though they...
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Household preferences for goods with a bundle of attributes may have complex substitution patterns when one attribute … is changed. For example, a household faced with an exogenous increase in the size of one television may choose to … economy of a kept vehicle affects a household's choice of a second vehicle. We find strong evidence of attribute substitution …
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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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We explore the relation between probability weighting and household portfolio underdiversification in a representative … household survey, using custom-designed incentivized lotteries. On average, people display Inverse-S shaped probability …
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We use transaction-level data of portfolio trades and holdings linked to checking, savings, and settlement account transactions and balances to explore how individuals respond to realized capital gains and losses. We exploit plausibly exogenous sales due to mutual fund liquidations for...
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wealth and household size, and to a lesser extent with education and proxies for financial experience. The index is strongly … positively correlated with the share of risky assets held by a household …
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Despite its importance for the analysis of life-cycle behavior, stock ownership by households is poorly understood. Among other approaches to the investigation of this puzzle, recent research has elicited the expectations of stock market returns by individuals. This paper reports findings from a...
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Barber and Odean (2000) study the relationship between trading frequency andreturns. They find that households who trade more frequently have a lower net return than other households. But all households have about the same gross return. They argue that these results cannot emerge from a model...
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imply. Our results also suggest that a substantial part of the reduced form relationship between stock holding and household …
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