In this article we assess if German private investors gamble at the stock market. For this purpose, we replicate Kumar’s (2009) methodology and analyze the pricing of lottery-type stocks in the German stock market. We further employ data from Deutsche Bundesbank’s Securities Holdings...

A measure of the propensity to gamble in casinos constructed without any asset price data provides relevant information for asset pricing. This measure of risk appetite improves the fit of conditional asset pricing models such as the conditional CAPM, explains cross-sectional differences in...