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Asset market participation and portfolio choice over the life-cycle

Fagereng, Andreas; Gottlieb, Charles; Guiso, Luigi - 2015 - First draft: September 2011, This version: June 2015

We study the life cycle of portfolio allocation following for 15 years a large random sample of Norwegian households using error-free data on all components of households’ investments drawn from the Tax Registry. Both, participation in the stock market and the portfolio share in stocks, have...

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Who holds risky assets and how much? : an empirical study based on the HFCS data

Zhan, Jun Chao - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 42 (2015) 2, pp. 323-370

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Non-take-up of tax-favored savings plans : are household portfolios optimal?

Alessie, Rob; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Soest, Arthur van - 2001

that they can allocate to their own choice. Moreover, unless liquidfinancial wealth is too small, each household should … hold the maximum amount to which the tax incentives apply.In this paper, we analyze household data on participation in …

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Financial risk aversion and household asset diversification

Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first … socioeconomic characteristics, the propensity for taking investment risk is an important predictor of a household's diversification …. -- Household finances ; diversification ; financial portfolio …

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Life-cycle stock market participation in taxable and tax-deferred accounts

Zhou, Jie - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 36 (2012) 11, pp. 1814-1829

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Endogenous non-tradable earnings and households' demand for risky assets

Arrondel, Luc; Calvo Pardo, Héctor F. - 2014

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Stockholding in Spain

Ampudia Fraile, Miguel - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 4, pp. 415-435

This paper explores the stock holdings of Spanish households. As found for other developed countries, the major part of Spanish households does not participate in the stock market. We analyse the impact that entry costs can have in this decision by looking at how wealth, education and a series...

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To own or not to own? : household portfolios, demographics and institutions in a cross-national perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households’ participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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Risk taking and fund fee choice of private investors

Ehm, Christian - 2013

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Household asset holding diversification in Australia

Mariotti, Francesco; Mumford, Karen; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - 2014

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