Drawing on the model on financial planning for retirement (FPR), the aim of this work is to explore how parental economic socialization both directly and indirectly affects FPR through the mediation of financial literacy, financial planning decisions and financial management. Data from a sample of 280 participants aged between 45 and 63 years were used. The results show that parental economic s...

In managing finances, each aims to be able generate income for himself. Investment is one of the individual decisions increase assets owned by allocating a certain amount funds, time, and that are considered returns. Millennial investors government's main target through financial literacy education Financial Services Authority has promoted in encouraging an stock investment public. However, man...

vol. 6, no. 1, 2014, ser. 66/3     extended abstract   explaining the relationship indices of the performance evaluation and rank performance with the growth of the companies   m. afshar                                          r. zamani amugheen molana higher education, abyek, qazvin   introduction        due tocompetition in the global economy and an increase in public awareness about the fin...

In this paper, we show that large inflows into commodity investments, a recent phenomenon known as financialization, has changed the behavior and dependence structure between commodities and the general stock market. The common perception is that the increase in comovements is the result of distressed investors selling both assets during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. We show that financial di...

We employ a model of leverage-induced explosive behavior in financial markets to develop a measure of financial market instability. Specifically, we derive a quantitative condition for how large levered investors can become relative to the whole market before the demand curve for securities suddenly becomes upward-sloping and small price declines cascade as levered investors are forced to liqui...

We investigate the way investors react to prior gains/losses. We use a new and unique dataset with detailed information on investors’ various components of wealth, income, demographic characteristics and portfolio holdings identified at the stock level. We test the theory of loss aversion against the alternative provided by standard utility theory and the house-money effect. We show that, on a ...

This paper presents dynamic portfolio model based on the Merton's optimal investment-consumption model, which combines dynamic synthetic put option using risk-free and risky assets. This paper is extended version of methodological paper published by Yuan Yao (2012). Because of the long history of the development of foreign financial market, with a variety of financial derivatives, the study on ...

Financial crises are supposed to be rare events, yet they occur quite often. According to Reinhart and Rogoff (2009), investors suffer from “this time is different” syndrome, failing to see crises coming because they do not recognize similarities among the different pre-crisis bubbles. As a result, each crisis surprises investors. Economists typically model financial crises as responses to shoc...

This research was conducted to determine whether the determinants of financial risk tolerance varied by gender or same factors influenced risk-taking capacities both genders. study utilised personality types (Type-A and Type-B), literacy, six demographic parameters, including marital status, age, education, income, occupation, number dependents, as independent variables, a dividing variable. In...