Diversification and Its Discontents: Idiosyncratic and Entrepreneurial Risk in the Quest for Social Status

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How Does Household Portfolio Diversification Vary with Financial Literacy and Financial Advice (2011, unknown): “The same goes for the “beat the Jones” argument of Roussanov (2010). either numerical-financial skills or the availability of advice may be effective in ameliorating the worst investment outcomes.”
Inequality, stock market participation, and the equity premium (2013, unknown): “An equilibrium is defined as a set of endogenously determined prices (bond prices, equity returns, and wages) given by time-invariant functions RK,t = RK(μt, Zt) and qt = q(μt, Zt); a set of 17Another alternative for increasing the volatility of equity is to have stochastic shocks to the capital dep”
Rankings and Risk-Taking in the Finance Industry (2018, unknown): “The experiments differ in the selection of participants (professionals versus students), in the frame in which the investment 1See Veblen (1899) and Festinger (1954) for classical papers and Roussanov (2010) for a finance application.”
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