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When finding the optimal consumption and investment decision rules of an individual, accounting for a change in the … sufficiently large habit formation lead to a hump-shaped consumption pattern and a decreasing investment into the risky asset, as …
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study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment … amount between a risky asset and a safe asset. Subjects were informed that the investment plans they made in the Decision …
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study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment … amount between a risky asset and a safe asset. Subjects were informed that the investment plans they made in the Decision …
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dynamically optimize over consumption, investment in capital, and investment in information. The model predicts that investors … financial sector, such as the sources of variation in returns on information acquisition for investment banks or private equity …
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The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …
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We present a dynamic model that illustrates three forces that shape the effect of overconfidence (overprecision of consumed information) on the amount of collected information. The first force comes from overestimating the precision of the next consumed piece of information. The second force is...
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study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment … amount between a risky asset and a safe asset. Subjects were informed that the investment plans they made in the Decision …
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I hypothesize that firms are more likely to make investments that reduce their CO2 emissions intensity if the threat of climate change is more salient. To test this, I examine mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the US from 2012-2021 and exploit exogenous variation in exposure to abnormally warm...
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Using a sample of comparable public listed and private firms from nine European countries, we show that public firms reduce their investments by about 50% more than private firms in periods of elevated policy uncertainty. We find suggestive evidence that this can be explained by public firms'...
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