Banking services can now be delivered digitally and many banks are downsizing their physical operations. Bank customers are also relying less on physical locations because of digital banking. Is geography indeed now less important for banks? Using quasi-exogenous closures of ATMs in a densely...

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 whether biased income expectations due to overconfidence lead to higher levels of debt-taking. In a lab experiment, participants can purchase goods by borrowing against their future income. We exogenously manipulate income expectations by letting income depend on relative...

Since the 2008 global crisis, financial literacy has come into the spotlight, but the available definitions are of theoretical nature addressing major issues appeared in specific economies, as presented here through an in-depth analysis of the literature. While the common focus has been on the...

The disposition effect is the reluctance to sell assets at a loss relative to a salient point of reference. Typically, that referent has been assumed to be the purchase price, but other values can also assume prominence as reference points. Drawing on a model of multiple reference points, we...

Lost and forgotten retirement savings accounts are increasingly becoming a problem. This paper uses proprietary data, survey data, and a field experiment to study the effect of two campaigns to raise awareness and direct attention to this issue among account holders. The first campaign is based...

We test a gender threat hypothesis whereby having a financial advisor of the opposite gender results in gender stereotypical risk attitudes. We employ a unique dataset of 1,621 advised UK investors, combined with information on the gender of their financial advisors. Confirming the hypothesis,...

The role of a bank advisor is especially important for guiding and counseling financially distressed individuals. Using a randomized controlled survey experiment conducted on a representative sample of French individuals and priming the financial vulnerability of half the respondents, we examine...

Romanian Abstract: Adeseori, unele decizii financiare ale familiilor, precum cele care privesc împrumuturile, consumul, economisirea sau investiţiile sunt adoptate în moduri care diferă semnificativ de ipotezele finanţelor tradiţionale. Finanţele comportamentale ale familiei încearcă...

The disposition effect has been widely studied in academia, while the reverse disposition effect observed in mutual funds has gained relatively little attention. This study examines the reverse disposition effect in detail by using policy-level data from a Finnish life insurer with a...