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,...

Mit einem aktiven Portfoliomanagement verfolgen Investoren das Ziel, überdurchschnittliche Portfoliorenditen zu erzielen. Dieses Ziel wird dann erreicht, wenn Börsenkurse von ihren gerechtfertigten Werten abweichen. -- In dem vorliegenden Buch wird ein Ansatz für Aktien vorgestellt, mit dem...

Differences in answers in Internet and traditional surveys can be due to selection, mode, or context effects. We exploit unique experimental data to analyze mode and context effects controlling for arbitrary selection. The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) surveys a random sample of the US 50+...

We show that in a consumption-based asset-pricing model with hyperbolic discounting leading to dynamically inconsistent time preferences value premium increases nonlin-early with the degree of discounting and thus affects cross section of returns. To test our model empirically, we relate the...