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Household economic decisions under the shadow of terrorism
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009
expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find … where the events of September 2001 took place worry a lot about their safety. In addition, fear of terrorism discourages … households from investing in stocks, mostly through the high levels of insecurity felt by females. Insecurity due to terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303743
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Household economic decisions under the shadow of terrorism
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - Center for Financial Studies - 2009
expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find … where the events of September 2001 took place worry a lot about their safety. In addition, fear of terrorism discourages … households from investing in stocks, mostly through the high levels of insecurity felt by females. Insecurity due to terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958603
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Household Economic Decisions under the Shadow of Terrorism
Christelis, Dimitrios; Georgarakos, Dimitris - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2009
expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households’ portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find … where the events of September 2001 took place worry a lot about their safety. In addition, fear of terrorism discourages … households from investing in stocks, mostly through the high levels of insecurity felt by females. Insecurity due to terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802092
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Household Economic Decisions under the Shadow of Terrorism
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2010
expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households’ portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find … where the events of September 2001 took place worry a lot about their safety. In addition, fear of terrorism discourages … households from investing in stocks, mostly through the high levels of insecurity felt by females. Insecurity due to terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500432
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Consuming dividends
Bräuer, Konstantin; Hackethal, Andreas; Hanspal, Tobin - 2020 - Current version: May 2020
This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine administrative bank data linking customers' consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio data and survey responses on financial behavior. We find that private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223798
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Uncertainty and information acquisition: evidence from firms and households
Mikosch, Heiner; Roth, Christopher; Sarferaz, Samad; … - 2021
We leverage the small open economy Switzerland as a testing ground for basic premises of macroeconomic models of endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater exposure to exchange rate movements than households,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799469
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Uncertainty and information acquisition : evidence from firms and households
Mikosch, Heiner; Roth, Christopher; Sarferaz, Samad; … - 2021
We leverage the small open economy Switzerland as a testing ground for basic premises of macroeconomic models of endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater exposure to exchange rate movements than households,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697102
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How do consumers adapt to a new environment in their economic forecasting? : evidence from the German reunification
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2018
Exploiting the natural experiment of the German reunification, we examine how consumers adapt to a new environment in their macroeconomic forecasting. We document that East Germans expect higher inflation and make larger forecast errors than West Germans even decades after reunification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937408
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How do consumers adapt to a new environment in their economic forecasting? : evidence from the German reunification
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2019
Exploiting the natural experiment of the German reunification, we examine how consumers adapt to a new environment in their macroeconomic forecasting. We document that East Germans expect higher inflation and make larger forecast errors than West Germans even decades after reunification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317615
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The display of information and household investment behavior
Shaton, Maya - 2016
I exploit a natural experiment to show that household investment decisions depend on the manner in which information is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709245