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Smoking Hot Portfolios? Self-Control and Investor Decisions
(2019-09-01)
Self-control failure is among the major pathologies (Baumeister et al. (1994)) affecting individual investment decisions which has hardly been measurable in empirical research. We use cigarette addiction identified from ...
Smoking Hot Portfolios? Self-Control and Investor Decisions
(2019-03-01)
Self-control failure is among the major pathologies (Baumeister et al. (1994)) affecting individual investment decisions which has hardly been measurable in empirical research. We use cigarette addiction identified from ...
Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data
(2019-03-01)
Job security is important for durable consumption and household savings. Using surveys, workers express a probability that they will lose their job in the next 12 months. In order to assess the empirical content of these ...
Implications of Money-Back Guarantees for Individual Retirement Accounts: Protection Then and Now
(2019-10-21)
In the wake of the financial crisis and continued volatility in international capital markets, there is growing interest in mechanisms that can protect people against retirement account volatility. This paper explores the ...
Financial Literacy and Self-Control in FinTech: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Online Consumer Borrowing
(2019-10-14)
We report the results of a longitudinal intervention with students across five universities in China designed to reduce online consumer debt. Our research design allocates individuals to either a financial literacy treatment, ...
Who Are the Bitcoin Investors? Evidence from Indirect Cryptocurrency Investments
(2019-12-10)
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 ...