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Many previous experiments have found that participants invest more in risky assets if they (i) see their returns less frequently, (ii) see portfolio-level returns (rather than individual asset-by-asset returns), or (iii) see long-horizon (rather than one-year) historical asset class return...
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with empirical evidence, the model shows that (a) value stocks are those with higher cash-flow risk; (b) the size of the … value premium is larger in %u201Cbad times,%u201D due to time variation in risk preferences; (c) the unconditional CAPM …
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their responsible workers, and in turn engage in CSR through self-regulation, provided that regulatory oversight is poor … enough - and hence regulation is loose enough - to make self-regulation worthwhile. The key prediction of the model is a … gas emissions disclosure in all public firms. Consistent with our theory, we find that firms in the UK receive lower CSR …
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In this paper, we estimate the behavioral component of the Grinblatt and Han (2002) model and derive several testable implications about the expected relationship between the preponderance of disposition-prone investors in a market and volume, volatility and stock returns. To do this, we use a...
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What contributes to the growing income inequality across U.S. households? We develop an information- based general equilibrium model that links capital income derived from financial assets to a level of investor sophistication. Our model implies income inequality between sophisticated and...
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Optimal investment of firms implies that expected stock returns are tied with the expected marginal benefit of investment divided by the marginal cost of investment. Winners have higher expected growth and expected marginal productivity (two major components of the marginal benefit of...
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The subjective distribution of growth rates of aggregate consumption is characterized by pessimism if it is first-order stochastically dominated by the objective distribution. Uniform pessimism is a leftward translation of the objective distribution of the logarithm of the growth rate. The...
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We investigate whether individuals' experiences of macro-economic outcomes have long-term effects on their risk … lower willingness to take financial risk, are less likely to participate in the stock market, and, conditional on …
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and Titman (1993). We test one such theory--based on the gradual-information-diffusion model of Hong and Stein (1997)--and …
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We introduce the model of asset management developed in Gennaioli, Shleifer, and Vishny (2012) into a Solow-style neoclassical growth model with diminishing returns to capital. Savers rely on trusted intermediaries to manage their wealth (claims on capital stock), who can charge fees above costs...
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