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This study investigates the effect of underlying risk preferences on analysts' work-related decisions. Specifically, we examine whether facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), an innate personal characteristic that has been linked to financial risk tolerance, affects analysts' stock coverage...
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This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such...
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Silicon Graphics Inc. court ruling as a natural experiment. This ruling unexpectedly reduced the litigation risk of firms …
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The encouragement of potential investors who are emotionally broken by past losses and market experiences is crucial to the sustainable flow of funds to the stock market. This can be established by building a knowledge-creating mechanism among investors in their cognitive dimensions, which, in...
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We investigate risk presentations in retirement savings decisions using a discrete choice experiment where subjects …
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describes the construction and administration of a discrete choice experiment to almost 1200 members of Australia's mandatory … retirement savings scheme. The experiment finds overall rates of violation of roughly 25%, and substantial variation in rates … below or above thresholds. Individuals with low numeracy skills, assessed as part of the experiment, are several times more …
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We study a regulation that increased mutual funds' risk salience through name change. Using daily fund flow data and several identification strategies, we find that requiring certain fixed income mutual funds to affix an exclamation mark ("!") to their names caused a statistically and...
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