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This study investigates whether and how the crisis in 2008/2009 affects households' risk attitudes, subjective risk and return expectations, and planned financial risk taking using the German SAVE study. Households' wealth change from end-2007 to end-2009 is not found to have an effect. However,...
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We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a …
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Cryptocurrencies have received growing attention from individuals, the media, and regulators. However, little is known about the investors whom these financial instruments attract. Using administrative data, we describe the investment behavior of individuals who invest in cryptocurrencies with...
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correlations of unobservables across different asset choices can lead to very misleading results. -- Foreign Assets ; Household …
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We investigate the determinants of a household's decision on whether to invest in risky financial assets. Financial … measure income risk as the observed variation of household income over a five year period. We find that indeed higher income … risk reduces the propensity to invest in stocks. However, when controlling for household heterogeneity as well as …
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Household investment mistakes are an important concern for researchers and policymakers alike; portfolio …
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This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine administrative bank data linking customers' consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio data and survey responses on financial behavior. We find that private...
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This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first … socioeconomic characteristics, the propensity for taking investment risk is an important predictor of a household's diversification …. -- Household finances ; diversification ; financial portfolio …
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hold diversified portfolios of financial assets. The analysis is based on household survey data from the German …
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Since decades, only one fourth of German households invest in shares. One exception was during the three IPOs from 1996 to 2000 of the Deutsche Telekom, which gave Germans a taste to enter the stock market. However, the fall in the share price shortly after the second IPO, followed by corruption...
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