Investor sentiment is an important aspect of behavioural finance, which provides explanation of anomalies to the asset’s intrinsic values. Sentiments can easily affect individual investors. Historically, Australia is regarded as rich in resources but poor in capital, and this motivates the...

We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive as well as the intensive margin of risky assets, European households differ substantially from US households; but also inside Europe we document substantial differences....

Markowitz (1952) hat gezeigt, dass es für risikoaverse Wirtschaftssubjekte sinnvoll ist, das Vermögen auf verschiedene Anlageinstrumente zu verteilen. Doch erweist sich in der Praxis, dass Wirtschaftssubjekte häufig nicht-optimal diversifizierte Portfolios halten. Es gibt viele mögliche...