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The determinants of portfolio choice have been studied extensively in the field of household finance. In this paper we study the determinants of the decision to hold risky assets based on a novel dataset of German bank data. Our primary focus is the question whether East Germans differ in their...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The partnership years (1957-1968) -- 1958: Sanborn map company -- 1961: Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company -- 1964: Texas National Petroleum Company -- 1964: American Express -- 1965: Berkshire Hathaway -- The middle years (1968-1990) -- 1967: national...