Essays On Household Financial Decision Making
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Essays On Household Financial Decision Making
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Author : Kamlesh Kumar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Essays On Household Financial Decision Making written by Kamlesh Kumar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Essays In Empirical Household Financial Decision Making
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Author : Charline Uhr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Essays In Empirical Household Financial Decision Making written by Charline Uhr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Household Financial Choice
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Author : Michael S. Finke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Household Financial Choice written by Michael S. Finke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Electronic Dissertations categories.
This dissertation examines household characteristics the impact financial decision making. The first essay explores the role of cognitive ability in numeracy, risk tolerance, credit decisions, wealth and retirement savings and asset allocation and finds that cognitive ability is an important predictor of financial decisions. The second essay develops a new instrument to measure time discounting and models asset accumulation and asset allocation and finds that a factor score of intertemporal behaviors is significantly related to both asset accumulation and asset allocation. The third essay documents the decline in basic financial knowledge among households over 60 using a new financial literacy instrument developed to more accurately capture a household's ability to make effective balance sheet, credit, investment, and insurance choices.
Financial Literacy Motivated Reasoning And Gender
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Author : Thérèse Lind
language : en
Publisher: Linköping University Electronic Press
Release Date : 2019-05-16
Financial Literacy Motivated Reasoning And Gender written by Thérèse Lind and has been published by Linköping University Electronic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-16 with categories.
I wrote this thesis to create a better understanding of how individual characteristics influence our feelings, our behavior and our way of interpreting information. My focus is on financial behavior and financial information, however I also consider a political context. I investigate the (usually) enabling abilities of financial literacy and numeracy. I also consider impediments such as stereotype threat and motivated reasoning, which can prevent people from engaging in certain behaviors or from interpreting information objectively. Both processes stem from valued beliefs and psychological foundations, consequently peoples’ efforts, decisions, and evaluations are based on them. The first essay, “Competence, confidence, and gender: The role of perceived and actual financial literacy in household finance,” broadens our understanding of the benefits of financial competence. I contrast perceived and actual levels of financial literacy, and consider the role of numeracy and cognitive reflective ability. I conclude that perceived and actual levels of financial literacy positively affect behavior and wellbeing; however, perceived financial literacy more so than actual financial literacy. No such effect is observed for numeric ability and cognitive reflection. Furthermore, women are more anxious about financial matters even though they tend to engage more frequently in the considered financial behaviors. The second essay, “Threatening finance? Examining the gender gap in financial literacy,” continues my exploration of the relationship between gender and financial literacy. In a series of studies, I investigate whether the observed gender gap in financial literacy can be identified in nonnumerical contexts, if it can be associated with confidence in financial matters, and if it can be attributed to stereotype threat, which posits that inbuilt prejudices about gender and finance undermine women’s performance of tasks that involve finance. The results show that the observed gender gap in financial literacy is robust even in nonnumerical financial contexts and suggest that a stereotype threat for women in the financial domain might be present. The gender gap in financial literacy could not be attributed to a difference in (displayed) confidence. In the third essay, “Preferences for lump-sum over divided payment structures,” I investigate whether or not people display systematic preferences for lump–sum or divided payment structures and how these preferences differ in gain (benefit) and loss (payment) situations. I investigate what happens when payments belong to a single underlying event, such as when people can choose to pay immediately or in installments. I also examine whether or not individual differences in time preferences, risk preferences, numeracy, and financial literacy are associated with preferences for one payment structure or the other. The aggregate results show a tendency for people to prefer obtaining and paying money in lump sums. I find no systematic indication that the considered individual differences play a role in this type of decision. The fourth essay, “Motivated reasoning when assessing the effect of refugee intake,” inquires into differences in worldview ideology, whether people identify as nationally or globally oriented, hinder them from objectively interpreting information. I use an experiment to find out if people display motivated reasoning when interpreting numerical information about the effects of refugees on the crime rate. Our results show evidence of motivated reasoning along the lines of worldview ideology. However, individuals with higher numeric ability were less likely to engage in motivated reasoning, leading to the conclusion that motivated reasoning is more likely to be driven by feelings and emotional cues than by deliberate analytical processes.
Essays On Government Policy And Household Financial Decisions
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Author : Karen M. Pence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Essays On Government Policy And Household Financial Decisions written by Karen M. Pence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Essays On Financial Decision Making
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Author : Thomas Spycher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Essays On Financial Decision Making written by Thomas Spycher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
This thesis contains four essays on financial decision making. The first two essays examine the influence of cultural group membership on the accumulation of financial literacy and on intertemporal choice. The chapters exploit the Swiss language border as a natural laboratory to study the influence of culture and document substantial differences in behavior based on a self-collected survey dataset of 15-year olds living along the language border in the canton of Fribourg. An analysis of underlying channels suggests that observed differences in financial literacy and intertemporal choice are rather related to systematic differences in social norms than to differences in time and risk preferences. The third essay investigates the influence of an extended cooling-off period for personal loans. A cooling-off period grants a borrower the right to withdraw from a signed credit contract. Cooling-off periods are a commonly used tool for consumer financial protection, but little empirical evidence exists on its use and how changes in its duration affect consumer behavior. Based on a large sample of loan offers in Switzerland, I document that cooling-off periods are rarely used. Less than 0.6\% of accepted loan offers are withdrawn by the borrower. The extension of the period from 7 to 14 days did not increase the propensity to make use of the right to withdraw but rather increased the cost of regulation as credit providers disburse loans only after the cooling-off period. The last essay examines how the numeracy level of employees is related to the quality of their on-the-job decisions. Employers place significant weight on the numerical skills of employees and the level of numeracy is associated with labor market outcomes. Based on an administrative dataset of a retail bank the study relates the performance of loan officers in a standardized math test to the accuracy of their credit assessments of small business borrowers. Results sug.
Essays On The Impacts Of Household Financial Decision Making
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Author : George Simon Mihaylov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Essays On The Impacts Of Household Financial Decision Making written by George Simon Mihaylov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Households categories.
The thesis examines the consequences of household and individual financial decision making in three different areas: mortgages, superannuation and family businesses. The questions posed in each case cannot be tackled using conventional financial databases. I therefore address each case by applying survey methods. First, I examine the socioeconomic impacts of households choosing to take out shared appreciation mortgages (SAMs). Tax and regulatory barriers have impeded the development and use of SAMs in many mortgage markets. Empirical studies on household impacts stemming from SAMs have therefore also been limited. However, the State Government of South Australia has implemented SAMs as a means of enabling and encouraging low-income homeownership, thereby creating a unique dataset of SAM financed households. I survey this population, finding that SAM borrowers benefit from increased budgetary expenditure on discretionary items following take-up, while simultaneously saving on some non-discretionary items relative to control samples of renters and other homeowners from the general population. Furthermore, SAM homeownership also appears to be associated with increased levels of neighbourhood satisfaction and community involvement for borrowers. The results from this study indicate that SAM financed homeownership leads to changes in household behaviour and deserves further consideration by the housing industry and research community. Second, I examine the influence of investor knowledge and the cognitive bias which arises from overconfidence on the advice seeking behaviour of investors in self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). I trace whether overestimating one's own technical and financial abilities can hinder the willingness to seek advice. I identify a subset of investors who are not knowledgeable and yet do not seek advice to compensate for this. These investors appear to be overconfident in their ability to manage their SMSF, despite holding under-diversified and less financially sophisticated portfolios when compared to their peers. Given the global rise in investors choosing to manage their own retirement funds and the importance of seeking advice in this context, there are direct policy implications from these findings. They suggest a need to identify and target self-managed retirement investors who display overconfidence since they are the most likely to manage under-performing SMSFs in the longer term. Third, I examine links between the succession planning decisions, operational management and financial performance of small-to-medium sized agricultural enterprises (SMAEs). I differentiate between written, verbal and other succession arrangements to investigate how each type embeds within the broader operational environment of SMAE households. Further tests are performed to see if differences in financial outcomes can be linked with a particular approach to succession. The results indicate that succession planning decisions are positively associated with the use of written business plans and crop insurance, but that this is only true for SMAEs with professionalised written succession arrangements. This was also the only cohort associated with improved return on assets relative to peer agricultural businesses with alternative succession arrangements in place. Given the critical role of succession in the long-term sustainability of family business households, these results have direct implications for farmers and practitioners advising the private agricultural sector. They suggest that the value in planning succession at least partly lies in the value of going down pathways for professionalization.
Household Financial Management
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Author : Sumit Agarwal
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2023-10-18
Household Financial Management written by Sumit Agarwal and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-18 with Business & Economics categories.
This book is dedicated to showcasing the importance of household financial management through the lens of academic research, with the goal of enhancing the financial well-being of individuals.Through an exploration of households' financial choices over their lifecycle, the book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of households' financial decision-making processes, grounded in economic models, policies, and data.This holistic perspective encompasses an awareness of the functioning of different market types and an appreciation of various cognitive and behavioral biases. As a result, readers would be better positioned to make informed financial choices.By further integrating theories and empirical evidence from economics and finance, the book provides readers with insights into actions they can take to circumvent common financial pitfalls and offers solutions for effectively addressing them.Supplementary Material Resources:Resources are available to students who adopt this textbook for their courses. These include: (1) PowerPoint deck. Please contact [email protected].
Essays In Household Finance
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Author : Fernando Lopez (Professor of finance)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Essays In Household Finance written by Fernando Lopez (Professor of finance) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Electronic dissertations categories.
This dissertation consists of three essays that examine the determinants of individual financial decision making and the welfare implications of those decisions. In the first essay, I consider an important dimension of individual welfare, namely mental health, to study whether the use of different financial services helped to withstand the damage caused by a large earthquake that hit Chile in February 2010. Using a rich nationally representative panel data set and geographic differences in ground shaking caused by the earthquake as an exogenous source of damage, I find that earthquake insurance reduced the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by more than 50% among individuals who lived in properties that were damaged by the earthquake. However, I find no significant effects for the amount of savings and bank relationships. Overall, these results suggest that the welfare impact of financial services is driven by the ability to transfer resources across states of the world, but not through time. In the second essay, I study the extent to which low income students in the U.S. understand and take into consideration the financial aspects of their higher education. Using a rich data set from a large U.S. non-profit organization, I find that low income post-secondary students are poorly informed about three main financial aspects of their higher education: expected income, financing costs and opportunity cost of being enrolled. This result holds for students who are academically talented, have been exposed to financial education (including a semester-long personal finance class) and relevant financial experiences. Furthermore, preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial (N=117) suggest that an hour-long financial education workshop on the main financial aspects of college increases students' GPA by 0.2 points (p-value=0.15) and their ability to receive financial aid from the non-profit organization by 11.4 percentage points (p-value=0.25). Overall, these results suggest that (lack of) financial literacy can affect both educational attainment and financial outcomes of low income post-secondary students. In the third essay, I study if civic capital, defined as the set of values and beliefs within a community that promote cooperation for socially valuable purposes (Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales, 2011), affects the use of deposit accounts among Chilean households. Using an institutional setting of limited supply side barriers for access to deposit accounts and a rich household data set, I find that households from areas with higher levels of civic capital, measured as the rate of registration to vote, are more likely to have savings accounts and hold larger amounts in those accounts. This association is stronger for households that are less educated and less intensive users of communication and information devices such as phone, computer and the internet. These results are consistent with the idea that civic capital helps to overcome educational and informational barriers that limit the demand for deposit accounts.
Household Finance
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Author : Sumit Agarwal
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-07
Household Finance written by Sumit Agarwal and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Household finance studies is a relatively recent field, exploring a growing understanding of how households make financial decisions relating to the functions of consumption, payment, risk management, borrowing and investing; how institutions provide goods and services to satisfy these financial functions of households; and how interventions by firms, governments and other parties affect the provision of financial services. This timely book analyses existing findings about household behavior as well as findings related to policy interventions. With international case studies, this book reviews a topic of global importance and brings a crucial up-to-date survey of the field for researchers and postgraduate students.