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Why does portfolio choice correlate across generations?

We find that investors tend to hold the same securities as their parents. Instrumental variables that exploit social networks and a natural experiment based on mergers allow us to attribute the security-choice correlation to social influence within families. This influence runs not only from parents to children, but also in the opposite direction. Security holdings correlate more when family members are more likely to communicate and when they are more susceptible to social influence. The identical security holdings that social influence generates largely explain why risk-return profiles of household portfolios correlate across generations.

ISBN
978-952-323-184-9
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers ; No. 25/2017

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Knüpfer, Samuli
Rantapuska, Elias
Sarvimäki, Matti
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Finland
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2017

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Knüpfer, Samuli
  • Rantapuska, Elias
  • Sarvimäki, Matti
  • Bank of Finland

Entstanden

  • 2017

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