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Tell me something i don't already know : learning in low and high-inflation settings
Weber, Michael; Candia, Bernardo; Ropele, Tiziano; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328193
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Chapter 22 : Diversification and Asset Allocation Puzzles
Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2014
diversification, and trading behavior. Standard finance theory predicts the optimal investment behavior of rational agents with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053275
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Differences in Portfolios across Countries: Economic Environment versus Household Characteristics
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Haliassos, … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 1, pp. 220-236
We use cross-country microdata and counterfactual methods to document international differences in ownership and holdings of stocks, private businesses, homes, and mortgages among older households in thirteen countries. We decompose these differences into two parts, related to population...
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Financial Literacy and Savings Account Returns
Deuflhard, Florian; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Inderst, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Savings accounts are owned by most households, but little is known about the performance of households’ investments. We create a unique dataset by matching information on individual savings accounts from the DNB Household Survey with market data on account-specific interest rates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258071
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Differences in Portfolios across Countries: Economic Environment versus Household Characteristics
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Haliassos, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We document and study international differences in both ownership and holdings of stocks, private businesses, homes, and mortgages among households aged fifty or more in thirteen countries, using new and comparable survey data. We employ counterfactual techniques to decompose observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642873
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Investing at home and abroad: Different costs, different people?
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 6, pp. 2069-2086
We investigate US households’ direct investment in stocks, bonds and liquid accounts and their foreign counterparts, in … order to identify the different participation hurdles affecting asset investment domestically and overseas. To this end, we … associated with investment in foreign bonds and liquid accounts. …
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Household Debt and Social Interactions
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Haliassos, Michalis; Pasini, Giacomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Debt-induced crises, including the subprime crisis, are usually attributed exclusively to supply-side factors. We examine the role of social influences on debt culture, emanating from perceived average income of peers. Utilizing unique information from a household survey, representative of the...
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Stockholding: Participation, Location, and Spillovers
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Haliassos, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
include stocks in them strongly depends on owner characteristics, unlike with mutual fund owners and investment in stock funds …
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Stockholding: Participation, Location, and Spillovers
Haliassos, Michael; Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, … - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the … - 2010
include7 stocks in them strongly depends on owner characteristics, unlike with mutual fund owners and investment in stock …
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The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2014
Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of...
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