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About depression babies and red diaper babies: Do macroeconomic experiences affect everybody’s risk taking in the same way?

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  • Cordes, Henning
  • Dierkes, Maik

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We study how macroeconomic growth experienced throughout a person’s lifetime affects the decision to participate in the stock market, and how this interacts with political education. For people who have been raised in the market economy of the Federal Republic of Germany, we find that macroeconomic growth experienced throughout the lifetime predicts the likelihood of holding stocks and recent experiences have a higher impact. These findings do not extend to people who have been raised under the communistic regime of the former German Democratic Republic and thus have experienced a market economy only since the German reunification in 1989.

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  • Cordes, Henning & Dierkes, Maik, 2017. "About depression babies and red diaper babies: Do macroeconomic experiences affect everybody’s risk taking in the same way?," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 13(C), pages 25-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:beexfi:v:13:y:2017:i:c:p:25-27
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2017.02.004
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    1. König-Kersting, Christian & Trautmann, Stefan T., 2018. "Countercyclical risk aversion: Beyond financial professionals," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 18(C), pages 94-101.
    2. Cordes, Henning & Nolte, Sven & Schneider, Judith C., 2023. "Dynamics of stock market developments, financial behavior, and emotions," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).

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    Keywords

    Behavioral finance; Household finance; Portfolio choice;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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