Overreaction in expectations: Evidence and theory

H Afrouzi, SY Kwon, A Landier, Y Ma… - The Quarterly Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate biases in expectations across different settings through a large-scale
randomized experiment where participants forecast stable stochastic processes. The …

The promises and pitfalls of robo-advising

F D'Acunto, N Prabhala, AG Rossi - The Review of Financial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study the introduction of a wealth-management robo-adviser that constructs portfolios
tailored to investors' holdings and preferences. Adopters are similar to non-adopters in terms …

Exposure to grocery prices and inflation expectations

F D'Acunto, U Malmendier, J Ospina… - Journal of Political …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Consumers rely on the price changes of goods in their grocery bundles when forming
expectations about aggregate inflation. We use micro data that uniquely match individual …

Gender roles produce divergent economic expectations

F D'Acunto, U Malmendier… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Expectations about economic variables vary systematically across genders. In the domain of
inflation, women have persistently higher expectations than men. We argue that traditional …

Occupation and gender

P Cortes, J Pan - The Oxford handbook of women and the …, 2018 - books.google.com
Despite the converging roles of men and women in the labor market, occupational
segregation, defined as the tendency of men and women to work in different occupations …

Investor personality as a predictor of investment intention–mediating role of overconfidence bias and financial literacy

R Jain, D Sharma, A Behl, AK Tiwari - International Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the role of personality traits (PTs) of
individual investors on their investment intention (II). Further, to study the mediating role of …

Gender differences in financial risk tolerance

PJ Fisher, R Yao - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
The purpose of this research is to explore gender differences in financial risk tolerance using
a large, nationally representative dataset, the Survey of Consumer Finances. The impact of …

IQ, expectations, and choice

F D'acunto, D Hoang, M Paloviita… - The Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We use administrative and survey-based micro data to study the relationship between
cognitive abilities (IQ), the formation of inflation expectations, and the consumption plans of …

What do the data tell us about inflation expectations?

F D'Acunto, U Malmendier, M Weber - Handbook of economic expectations, 2023 - Elsevier
Inflation expectations are central to economics because they affect the effectiveness of fiscal
and monetary policy, as well as realized inflation. We survey the recent literature with a …

Low interest rates and risk-taking: Evidence from individual investment decisions

C Lian, Y Ma, C Wang - The Review of Financial Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
How do low interest rates affect investor behavior? We demonstrate that individuals “reach
for yield,” that is, have a greater appetite for risk-taking when interest rates are low. Using …