We investigate how the strength of the positive association between frequency of trading and information acquisition is dependent on investors’ self‐confidence and on the sources of information used by investors. Our results confirm that the more frequently individual investors invest in information, the more they trade in financial products. Our results also confirm previous findings that overconfident investo...
This paper investigates whether investors' domestic experience helps them enter foreign markets. We show that investors first invest in domestic securities and only some time later they invest abroad in foreign securities. We also show that investors who trade more often in the domestic market start to invest abroad earlier. Our findings suggest that the experience investors acquire while they trade in the dome...
We use a spatial Probit model to study banking crises and show that the probability of a systemic banking crisis depends on contagion and that this effect may result from business connections between institutions or from similarities between banking systems.
This paper investigates whether investors’ domestic experience helps them enter foreign markets. We show that investors first invest in domestic securities and only some time in later they invest abroad in foreign securities. We also show that investors who trade more often in the domestic market start to invest abroad earlier. Our findings suggest that the experience investors acquire while they trade in the d...
Neste trabalho procuramos perceber quais os factores que influenciam o nível de cultura financeira dos investidores individuais portugueses e explorar a relação entre conhecimento financeiro e comportamento dos agentes, centrando-nos na diversificação da carteira. Os resultados reportados permitem-nos concluir que o nível geral de cultura financeira dos investidores individuais portugueses é baixo, dois em cada...
Preliminary version ; The main goal of this paper is to study the determinants of bank interest margins and profitability for some European countries in the last decade. We use a set of bank characteristics, macroeconomic and regulatory indicators as well as financial structure variables in order to explain interest margins and profitability. We evaluate whether European countries, sharing a common bond - Euro...
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