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This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...
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SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times that of foreign-born singles. Further, there...
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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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households and lower investment by firms, and hence leads to lower aggregate investment and growth. This paper argues that … although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …
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Many institutional investors depend on the returns they generate to fund their operations and liabilities. How do these investors' financial conditions affect the management of their portfolios? We address this issue using the insurance industry because insurers are large investors for which...
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We estimate the relationship between investment and unemployment in order to explore whether the medium … up, both employment and investment fell although the estimated coefficient of investment is slightly smaller when the …
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stagnation. The reason is that automation suppresses wages, which are the only source of investment in the overlapping …
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Between 1997 and 2003, households’ wealth has increased much faster than their income due to the revaluation of property assets, and their fi nancial savings have been increasingly channelled into risky investments.
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behaviour under risk. We find that both, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally to the effects of …We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures of myopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment … MLA. Longer investment horizons and less frequent feedback lead to higher investments. However, when given the choice …
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paper we address two issues related to the effects of MLA on risky investment decisions. First, we assess the relative … impact of feedback frequency and investment flexibility (via the investment horizon) on risky investments. Second, given that … we observe higher investments with a longer investment horizon, we examine conditions under which investors might …
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