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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP4889 |
DP4889 Credit Crunch and Keynesian Contraction: Argentina in Crisis | |
Marcus Miller; Javier García-Fronti | |
发表日期 | 2005-01-23 |
出版年 | 2005 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We study the link between portfolio choice and different college-based interaction ? defined as the one that relates the portfolio choice of an investor to that of the other investors who went to the same college. We explain it in terms of a common cultural imprinting and the development of long-term friendship and alumni network and we directly quantify this bonding effect. We use a new dataset with information on portfolio choice ? broken down at the stock level ? wealth, income and demographic characteristics of a big panel of investors as well as information on the college they attended and their family situation at the time. We compare college-based interaction to other forms of social interaction, such as educational, professional and geographical interaction, properly controlling for all the standard motivations of portfolio theory, such as hedging of non-financial income risk, familiarity and information effects, wealth and income effect, a host of demographic, geographic and professional dummies, trend-chasing and momentum behaviour. All the different sources of social interaction significantly affect stock-picking as well as the choice between direct and delegated investment, both statistically and economically. College-based interaction is, however, the most important of them and the third single most important factor affecting stock picking. The impact of college-based interaction aggregates at the market level and affects stock prices. For each company, we construct measures of the degree of strength of college-based interaction among shareholders. We show that an increase in the strength of interaction reduces stock return and volatility. This can be rationalized in terms of recent theories on the impact of dispersion of beliefs in the presence of short-sale constraints. |
主题 | Financial Economics |
关键词 | Portfolio choice Social interaction Education Asset pricing |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp4889 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533790 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcus Miller,Javier García-Fronti. DP4889 Credit Crunch and Keynesian Contraction: Argentina in Crisis. 2005. |
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