This paper establishes a causal relation between an individual's decision of whether to own stocks and average stock market participation decision of the individual's community. We instrument for the average ownership of an individual's community with lagged average ownership of the states in...

Stock market populism- investment clubs and economic history -- Investment clubs as markets in microcosm -- Group composition & the business case for diversity -- Getting ahead versus getting along-decision making in investment clubs -- Reflections on investing in the 1990s -- Implications and...

Angel investors invest billions of dollars in thousands of entrepreneurial projects annually, far more than the number of firms that obtain venture capital. Previous research has calculated realized internal rates of return on angel investments, but empirical estimates of expected returns have...

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