Windfall gains and stock market participation

作者: Joseph Briggs , David Cesarini , Erik Lindqvist , Robert Östling

DOI: 10.1016/J.JFINECO.2020.07.014

关键词: Equity (finance)Stock marketRestricted stockLotteryNon-qualified stock optionLabour economicsStock market bubbleWindfall gainMonetary economicsEconomicsStock (geology)

摘要: We exploit the randomized assignment of lottery prizes in a large administrative Swedish data set to estimate the causal effect of wealth on stock market participation. A $150,000 windfall gain increases the stock market participation probability by 12 percentage points among prelottery nonparticipants but has no discernible effect on prelottery stock owners. A structural life cycle model significantly overpredicts entry rates even for very high entry costs (up to $31,000). Additional analyses implicate pessimistic beliefs regarding equity returns as …

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