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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the changing risk structure of German open-end funds using semi …
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men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …
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this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that US industrial firms invest heavily in noncash, risky financial assets. Using hand-collected data on financial portfolios of German firms, we show that risky asset holdings are not an anomaly unique to the US. We find that industrial firms in Germany invest...
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criteria to hedge climate change risk because physical risks have not yet fully materialized and policies to combat climate … plausibly exogenous changes in expectations about the level of a carbon tax in Germany. The risk-adjusted return on two …
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Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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