• Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review 

      Entorf, Horst; Hou, Jia (2018-04-20)
      In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those interventions report mixed results. With a focus on the effect on disadvantaged groups, we review both ...
    • Risk Taking, Preferences, and Beliefs: Evidence from Wuhan 

      Bu, Di; Hanspal, Tobin; Liao, Yin; Liu, Yong (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 ...
    • Smoking Hot Portfolios? Self-Control and Investor Decisions 

      Uhr, Charline; Meyer, Steffen; Hackethal, Andreas (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 

      Uhr, Charline; Meyer, Steffen; Hackethal, Andreas (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 ...