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Myopic Loss Aversion and the Equity Premium Puzzle
- S. Benartzi, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 1 May 1993
The equity premium puzzle, first documented by Mehra and Prescott, refers to the empirical fact that stocks have greatly outperformed bonds over the last century. As Mehra and Prescott point out, it… Expand
Excessive Extrapolation and the Allocation of 401(k) Accounts to Company Stock
- S. Benartzi
- Economics
- 1 October 2001
About a third of the assets in large retirement savings plans are invested in company stock, and about a quarter of the "discretionary" contributions are invested in company stock. From a… Expand
Naive Diversification Strategies in Defined Contribution Saving Plans
- S. Benartzi, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 1 March 2001
There is a worldwide trend toward defined contribution saving plans and growing interest in privatized Social Security plans. In both environments, individuals are given some responsibility to make… Expand
Risk Aversion Or Myopia? Choices in Repeated Gambles and Retirement Investments
- S. Benartzi, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 1 March 1999
We study how decision makers choose when faced with multiple plays of a gamble or investment. When evaluating multiple plays of a simple mixed gamble, a chance to win x or lose y, subjects show a… Expand
Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior
- S. Benartzi, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 22 January 2007
Standard economic theories of saving implicitly assume that households have the cognitive ability to solve the relevant optimization problem and the willpower to execute the optimal plan. Both of the… Expand
Do Changes in Dividends Signal the Future or the Past
- S. Benartzi, R. Michaely, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 1 July 1997
Many dividend theories imply that changes in dividends have information content about the future earnings of the firm. The authors investigate this implication and find only limited support for it.… Expand
Dividend Changes Do Not Signal Changes in Future Profitability
- Gustavo Grullon, R. Michaely, S. Benartzi, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 1 September 2005
One of the most important predictions of the dividend-signaling hypothesis is that dividend changes are positively correlated with future changes in profitability and earnings. Contrary to this… Expand
How Much is Investor Autonomy Worth
- S. Benartzi, R. Thaler
- Economics
- 1 August 2002
There is a worldwide trend towards defined contribution savings plans, where investors are often able to select their own portfolios. How much is this freedom of choice worth? We present retirement… Expand
Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?
- S. Benartzi, John Beshears, +6 authors Steven Galing
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 5 June 2017
Governments are increasingly adopting behavioral science techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now… Expand
The expected rate of return on pension funds and asset allocation as predictors of portfolio
- S. Benartzi, E. Amir
- Business
- 20 April 1998
SFAS No. 87 (Employers' Accounting for Pensions) requires corporations to disclose the long-term expected rate of return on pension assets (ERR) and the composition of assets held in the pension… Expand
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