Arbeitspapier
The standard portfolio choice problem in Germany
We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable external validity: they predict real-life stock market participation. But many households do not significantly react to an exogenous increase in the risky asset's return. The data analysis and analogous laboratory experiments suggest that task complexity decreases the responsiveness to incentives. Modifying the return of the (simpler) safe asset has a larger effect.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: WZB Discussion Paper ; No. SP II 2014-308
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Expectations; Speculations
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- Thema
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stock market expectations
stock market participation
portfolio choice
artefactual field experiment
financial literacy
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Huck, Steffen
Schmidt, Tobias
Weizsäcker, Georg
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
- (wo)
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Berlin
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Huck, Steffen
- Schmidt, Tobias
- Weizsäcker, Georg
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
Entstanden
- 2014