This paper analyzes the distribution of household portfolios in Türkiye using a fresh data set, the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye - Household Finance and Consumption Survey. The empirical analysis concentrates on the motives behind household saving preferences and the distribution of...

"Breaking Bad for Boomers," analyzes the pitfalls of "pie-chart" plans for retirement asset allocation, identifies new benchmarks for 401(k) plan participants, and offers a new solution for asset allocation marketed by Compass Investors under the name HORIZON, which features back-tested...

This paper examines the implications for risk taking in an emerging stock market, viz., Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), using tools that specifically account for the asymmetries. We perform sectoral level price data analysis to infer how investors behaved during various states of stock market...

This paper analyses the relationship between lottery tickets and common stocks using cross sectional household data for the U.K. and Germany. In contrast to a previous empirical finding that predicts a complementary effect and nonexpected utility models that predict a substitutional effect, we...

This paper examines the effects of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) on private and national saving. We construct a formal model of dynamic utility maximization that generates closed-form equations for IRA and other saving. Our empirical estimates indicate that raising the annual IRA...

This article investigates the importance of both trust and sociability for stock market participation and for differences in stock-holding across Europe. We estimate significant effects for the two, and find that sociability can partly balance the discouragement effect on stock-holding induced...

This paper investigates the importance of both trust and sociability for stock market participation and for differences in stockholding across Europe. We estimate significant effects for the two, and find that sociability can partly balance the discouragement effect on stockholding induced by...