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We theoretically show that there is a fundamental disconnect be- tween the disposition effect, i.e., investors’ tendency to sell winning assets too early and losing assets too late, and its common empirical measure, namely a positive difference between the proportion of gains and losses re-...
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This paper analyzes the main uncertainty of college saving - the child’s ability - in the context of the saving with learning model. The first section develops a dynamic model combining asset accumulation and learning to explain the parents’ forward-looking saving behavior when they are...
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On average, "young" people underestimate whereas "old" people overestimate their chances to survive into the future. We adopt a Bayesian learning model of ambiguous survival beliefs which replicates these patterns. The model is embedded within a non-expected utility model of life-cycle...
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This paper considers an experimental market entry game, where the decision problem involves several heterogeneous markets and players have an opportunity to enter several markets simultaneously. We find that groups fail to coordinate on any of the multiple pure strategy Nash equilibria by...
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Peers' valuation matters for firms' investment: a one standard deviation increase in peers' valuation is associated … with a 5.9% increase in corporate investment. This association is stronger when a firm's stock price informativeness is … lower or when its managers appear less informed. Also, the sensitivity of a firm's investment to its stock price is lower …
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The prior literature establishes that trust affects investment, however, whether it leads to investment efficiency is … unaddressed. This study seeks to investigate the relationship between societal trust and corporate investment efficiency. The … study documents a positive association between societal trust and corporate investment efficiency. Using data from 30 …
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