What Matters to Individual Investors? Evidence from the Horse's Mouth

Working Paper No. 25019 We survey a representative sample of U.S. individuals about how well leading academic theories describe their financial beliefs and decisions. We find substantial support for many factors hypothesized to affect portfolio equity share, particularly background risk, investment...

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Published in:NBER Working Paper Series 2018-09, p.25019
Main Authors: Choi, James J, Robertson, Adriana Z
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Securities markets
Stock exchanges
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