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Does feedback on personal investment success help?
(2016-12-06)
In a field study with more than 1.500 customers of an online-broker we test what happens when investors receive repeated feedback on their investment success in a monthly securities account report. The reports show investors’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Disposition Effect in Boom and Bust Markets
(2021-02-05)
The disposition effect is implicitly assumed to be constant over time. However, drivers of the disposition effect (preferences and beliefs) are rather countercyclical. We use individual investor trading data covering several ...