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Household investors chase stock market returns. Surveys suggest that households intend to "ride the bubble" by buying …
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This paper examines the proposition that fluctuations in discounts on closed end funds are driven by changes in individual investor sentiment toward closed end funds and other securities. The theory implies that discounts on various funds must move together, that new funds get started when...
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correlated in most villages with portfolio-choice estimates. The heterogeneity matters for policy: Although the average 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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rises in wealth in the cross-section of households in the Survey of Consumer Finances. For a given household, the portfolio …
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the rest of the economy via high unemployment and reduced labor earnings, which reduced household contributions to Social …
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This paper re-examines the classic question of how a household should optimally allocate its portfolio between risky …
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We test the relation between ambiguity aversion and five household portfolio choice puzzles: non- participation, low ….S. household survey, we measure ambiguity aversion using custom- designed questions based on Ellsberg urns. As theory predicts …
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with information on the reallocation of resources within, from, and to the household sector in response to macroeconomic … events. The household sector is both a propagator of shocks to the economy, as wealth is redistributed across households with … of information on household exposures to macroeconomic risk factors - can potentially lead to better macroeconomic …
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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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