whether individuals have the financial knowledge and skills to navigate this new financial environment. To better understand … Survey. We have designed questions to measure numeracy and basic knowledge related to the working of inflation and interest … rates, as well as questions to measure more advanced financial knowledge related to financial market instruments (stocks …

have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge and downstream financial behaviors. Treatment …

Using a unique new dataset linking administrative data on investment performance and financial knowledge, we examine … most financially knowledgeable employees, and those scoring higher on our Financial Knowledge Index have slightly more … volatile portfolios while they do no better diversifying their portfolios than their peers. Overall, financial knowledge does …

for retirement. Many respondents display limited knowledge and understanding of public and company-provided retirement … remainder of their lifetimes, many do not possess enough basic financial knowledge to confidently make optimal choices …

own retirement security, this lack of knowledge has serious implications …

How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational … firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in … either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …