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Investor sophistication has lagged behind the growing complexity of retail financial markets. To explore this, we develop a dynamic model to study the interaction between obfuscation and investor sophistication. Taking into account different learning mechanisms within the investor population, we...
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portfolio diversification—NPD) or engage in naïve buying diversification (NBD)—equally balancing values in same-day purchases of … suggests that NBD substantially reduces investor welfare. These findings suggest that behavioral finance theory should …
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The benefits of international diversification have been recognized for decades. In spite of this, most investors hold … domestic equity market to be several hundred basis points higher than returns in other markets. This lack of diversification …
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One possible explanation for home bias is that investors may obtain indirect international diversification benefits by … tests to examine the diversification potential of multinational firms and foreign market indices for investors domiciled in … multinational stocks. However, there is weak evidence that U.S. multinationals provided global diversification benefits in the full …
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average 1990 salary gains of $115,000 to $145,000 per year for our sample. Diversification may raise pay because the CEO's job … the diversification premium to be invariant to tenure. Entrenchment models suggest higher premia for more experienced … over an entrenchment explanation. The diversification premium is unaffected by tenure, and increasing diversification …
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We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a...
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Diversified firms have different values than comparable portfolios of single-segment firms. These value differences must be due to differences in either future cash flows or future returns. Expected security returns on diversified firms vary systematically with relative value. Discount firms...
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domestic shares under full diversification. When stock-market data are directly used, the predicted coefficient of home bias …
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This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
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diversification declined significantly during the second half of the decade. The mean number of industries in which firms operated … operated. using plant-level Census Bureau data, we show that productivity is inversely related to the degree of diversification …, the lower the productivity of its plants. Hence de-diversification is one of the means by which recent takeovers have …
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