This study explores decision-making processes of promoters of financial products and financial advice services. We collect experimental evidence about how these professionals perceive their customers' needs, preferences, and biases. By focusing on the behavioral differences between expert (621)...

This paper compares sustainable retirement withdrawal rates for same-sex versus heterosexual couples. Due to convergence of expected longevity for males and females at typical retirement ages, systematic differences between same-sex versus heterosexual couples are slight, ranging from .03% at...

We demonstrate that increased automation has a significant negative impact on distribution of wealth. Households who are more exposed to industrial robots at work accumulate less wealth and experience greater downward mobility in the wealth distribution. The negative wealth effects of robots are...

We provide new evidence that local investors are peculiarly biased towards local IPO stocks. Taking the well-known investor preference for local stocks a step further, we contribute by showing that local IPOs boost stock market participation far more intensely than local listed firms....

We study behavior in an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents allocate a fixed budget between a safe asset and a risky asset whose returns are tied to the German stock market and earn monetary returns based on their decisions. Experimental...

Evidence suggests that human psychology plays a role in individuals' financial decisions, with economically meaningful consequences observed even at the aggregate market level. This chapter considers many instances whereby human mood induced by exogenous factors is associated with economically...

Using a stochastic life cycle model with endogenous financial knowledge accumulation, we show that financial knowledge is a key determinant of wealth inequality. The mechanism we posit is that financial knowledge enables individuals to better allocate re- sources over their lifetimes in a world...

We investigate two alternative explanations why men may hold more stocks than women. Apart from a gender difference in risk aversion, gender differences in either optimism or in perceived risk of financial markets might cause men to hold more risky assets. Our results show that men tend to be...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 1993～98년에 조사된 미시자료를 이용하여 한국 가계의 주식시장 참여패턴을 분석하고 이를 결정짓는 요인을 규명한다. 연구결과에 따르면 한국 가계의 주식시장 참여패턴은 기존 선진국에서 나타난...

Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be diversified or avoided. Moreover, measures of uninsurable wage risk must...