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1. The Happy household investor: the impact of happiness on stock market participation and portfolio risky shares
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : The research on happiness and its impacts on risk-taking in the form of stock market participation has attracted interest in recent years. Yet, what the actual impact is remains unclear. READ MORE
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2. The Effect of House Price Risk on Homeowners' Portfolio Choice
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : Using the 2017 wave of China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this paper studies how house price risk affects homeowners' stock market participation and share of liquid financial wealth invested in stocks conditional on not moving. Exploiting the subsample of homeowners whose tenure choices are exogenous due to the institutional changes during the Chinese housing market privatization, this study finds that the correlation between housing return and stock return has a crowding-out effect on both stock market participation and stock shares among participants. READ MORE
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3. Health Effects on the Households’ Stockholding Decisions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This study investigates the relationship between health and households’ decisions whether to participate in the stock market or not. We construct a set of health variables and out of these, we choose the most important health factors, such as self-assessed health, mobility limitations and mental health. READ MORE