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The Trading Response of Individual Investors to Local Bankruptcies
(2020-03-20)
We use data from a German online brokerage and a survey to show that retail investors sharply reduce risk-taking in response to nearby firm bankruptcies, which are not predictive of returns. The effects on trading are ...
Consuming Dividends
(2020-05-01)
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 ...
Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations
(2020-05-21)
We survey a representative sample of US households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations ...
Risk Taking, Preferences, and Beliefs: Evidence from Wuhan
(2020-03-24)
We study risk taking in a panel of subjects in Wuhan, China - before, during the COVID-19 crisis, and after the country reopened. Subjects in our sample traveled for semester break in January, generating variation in ...