Cross-country differences in homeownership rates are large and persistent over time, with homeownership rates ranging from 44% in Switzerland to 83% in Spain. This paper investigates whether cultures-defined as behavioral attitudes passed across generations-may value homeownership differently,...

Since the 2008 Lehman bankruptcy, it is clearly shown that global economic and financial crises present major challenges to private households, requiring from them, a high level of shock absorption capacity. According to the old adage, “Do not put all the eggs in one basket”, resilience...

This paper examines an Epstein-Zin recursive utility with quasi-hyperbolic discounting in continuous time. I directly define the utility process and consider a Merton's optimal consumption-investment problem for application. I show that a solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is the...

Using a novel dataset, I show that hedge fund managers connected through shared employment histories hold and co-trade more of the same stocks than unconnected managers. Results are greater between fund pairs with stronger social connections and longer dated relationships, implying a socially...

We use a 2018 survey of FX margin traders in Japan to investigate which key factors influence their performance: socio-demographic and economic situation, investment strategy and trading behaviour, and/orfinancial literacy. First, the data show that variables from all three groups are...

Given the increasing interest in and the growing number of publicly available methods to estimate investor sentiment from social media platforms, researchers and practitioners alike are facing one crucial question - which is best to gauge investor sentiment? We compare the performance of daily...

Using religious festivals in Taiwan as repeated natural experiments, we examine whether the religious beliefs of individual investors influence their trading behaviors. Based on the assumption that religious festivals draw superstitious individual investors participating and make them feel lucky...

This research analyzes how experiencing a natural disaster influences individual investor trading in the stock market. Exploiting a unique stock trading dataset of retail investors in Taiwan, we determine that individual investors who experienced major natural disasters trade more aggressively...

According to several extended behavioral theories, value profits should mirror momentum profits, and vary over time. We test these theories in the cross section of returns. Value returns depend on market states. From 1926 to 2018, following negative market return, the average so-called value...

This paper studies the behaviour of retail investors, that tend to be unwilling to make fi nancial decisions on their own and therefore follow other investors' strategies on online trading platforms, in particular with respect to their proneness towards the disposition effect. Therefore, we...