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Do gamblers invest in lottery stocks?
Kormanyos, Emily; Hanspal, Tobin; Hackethal, Andreas - 2022
Previous studies document a relationship between gambling at the aggregate level and investments in securities with … lottery-like features. We combine data on individual gambling consumption with portfolio holdings and trading records to … examine whether gambling and trading act as substitutes or complements. We find that gamblers are more likely than average to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013547897
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Do gamblers invest in lottery stocks?
Kormanyos, Emily; Hanspal, Tobin; Hackethal, Andreas - 2022
Previous studies document a relationship between gambling activity at the aggregate level and investments in securities … with lottery-like features. We combine data on individual gambling consumption with portfolio holdings and trading records … to examine whether gambling and trading act as substitutes or complements. We find that gamblers are more likely than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470234
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The standard portfolio choice problem in Germany
Huck, Steffen; Schmidt, Tobias; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2015
We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298558
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The standard portfolio choice problem in Germany
Huck, Steffen; Schmidt, Tobias; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014
We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413601
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Optimism gone bad? : the persistent effects of traumatic experiences on investment decisions
Kim, Chi Hyun - 2021
Do memories of highly emotional stock market crashes permanently affect the investment decisions of households? The Initial Public Offerings of Deutsche Telekom during 1996- 2000 provide an optimal base to address this question, as it is known for its emotional character and is reputedly "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607996
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Broadband internet and the stock market investments of individual investors
Hvide, Hans K.; Meling, Tom G.; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, … - 2021
We study the effects of broadband internet use on the portfolio selection of individual investors. A public program in Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use causes a substantial increase in stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419415
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Financial returns to household inventory management
Baker, Scott; Johnson, Stephanie; Küng, Lorenz - 2020
Households tend to hold substantial amounts of non-financial assets in the form of inventory. Households can obtain significant financial returns from strategic shopping and optimally managing these inventories of consumer goods. In addition, they choose to maintain liquid savings - household...
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Financial returns to household inventory management
Baker, Scott; Johnson, Stephanie; Küng, Lorenz - 2020
Households tend to hold substantial amounts of non-financial assets in the form of inventory. Households can obtain significant financial returns from strategic shopping and optimally managing these inventories of consumer goods. In addition, they choose to maintain liquid savings – household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271205
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Early health, risk aversion and stock market participation
Böckerman, Petri; Conlin, Andrew; Svento, Rauli - 2019
To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the Finnish Central Securities Depository over the period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006166
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Mixture-averse preferences and heterogeneous stock market participation
Sarver, Todd - 2016
To study intertemporal decisions under risk, we develop a new recursive model of non-expected-utility preferences. The main axiom of our analysis is called mixture aversion, as it captures a dislike of probabilistic mixtures of lotteries. Our representation for mixture-averse preferences can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617348