Essays about: "Anton Erkén"

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  1. 1. The Patient Risk-Taker: Understanding the Drivers of Wealth and Inequality Across Countries

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Mohamad Ali; Anton Erkén; [2023]
    Keywords : Patience; Risk Taking; Wealth; Wealth Inequality; Financial Development;

    Abstract : While economic inequality has been a topic of interest to researchers for decades, most literature is focused on inequality and its evolution in single country analyses, with very little research done on drivers of wealth inequality across countries. This paper documents an association between variations in country-level patience and risk preferences from experiments involving thousands of individuals from 76 countries, and cross-sectional wealth and wealth inequality measures. READ MORE