Investors' holding periods determine how transaction costs are amortized and priced as liquidity premium in asset returns. Using a dataset containing two million trades made by over 66,000 households, this paper shows that transaction costs are an important determinant of investors' holding...

We design, field and exploit survey data from a representative sample of the French population to examine whether informative social interactions enter households'stockholding decisions. Re- spondents report perceptions about their circle of peers with whom they interact about financial matters,...