This paper examines the association between stock market return expectations and financial wealth holdings of older … of positive stock market return were positively associated with greater financial wealth holdings among households. Our … financial wealth holdings of households. African Americans, Hispanics, and other races were negatively associated with the …

financial behavior. We find that private consumption is excessively sensitive to dividend income. Investors across wealth …

market wealth affect worker output. Exploiting large return variations over time and across investors, we document a 10 … idiosyncratic stock investment returns, and moreover is unexplained by investor-specific liquidity needs. Consistent with the wealth …

This paper investigates the effects of stock market wealth on consumer spending. Traditional macroeconometric models … estimate that a dollar's increase in stock market wealth boosts consumer spending by 3-7 cents per year. With the substantial … 1990s rise in stock prices, the nature and magnitude of this "wealth effect" have been much debated. After describing the …