Improving financial literacy is high on the agenda of many governments. The purpose of this paper is to broaden the theoretical approach towards the concept of financial literacy. The paper introduces and integrates several consumer behavior and marketing concepts to better understand how they...

We present an intertemporal portfolio choice model where individuals invest in financial literacy, save, allocate their wealth between a safe and a risky asset, and receive a pension when they retire. Financial literacy affects the excess return and the cost of stock market participation. Since...

This paper examines the relationship between overconfidence and losses from under-diversification among Dutch investors. We find that a lack of proper portfolio diversification is positively associated with overconfidence. Part of this relationship is mediated through the lower propensity of...

Household finance—the normative and positive study of how households use financial markets to achieve their objectives—has gained a lot of attention over the past decade and has become a field with its own identity, style, and agenda. In this chapter we review its evolution and most recent...

In the United States student loan debt has reached one trillion dollars. The increase in student loan debt correlates with an increase in the number of student loans in default. This study was conducted to determine the financial literacy of college students enrolled in a pre-professional...