Confidence, Financial Literacy and Investment in Risky Assets:  Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

Piotr Paradowski; Andrej Cupak; Pirmin Fessler; Joanne W. Hsu

doi:10.17016/feds.2020.004

Confidence, Financial Literacy and Investment in Risky Assets: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

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We employ recent Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) microdata from the US to analyze the impacts of confidence in one's own financial knowledge, confidence in the economy, and objective financial literacy on investment in risky financial assets (equity and bonds) on both the extensive and intensive margins. Controlling for a rich set of covariates including risk aversion, we find that objective financial literacy is positively related to investment in risky assets as well as debt securities. Moreover, confidence in own financial skills additionally increases the probability of holding risky assets and bonds. While these relationships are rather robust for the extensive margin, they break down with regard to the conditional share of financial wealth in risky assets of those who actually hold them. The relevance of financial literacy as well as confidence varies considerably with the distribution of wealth as well as across several socio-economic dimensions such as age, education and race.

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Kategoria:: Inna publikacyjna praca zbiorowa (w tym materiały konferencyjne)
Typ:: Inna publikacyjna praca zbiorowa (w tym materiały konferencyjne)
Tytuł wydania:: Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-004. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Rok wydania:: 2020
DOI:: Cyfrowy identyfikator dokumentu elektronicznego (otwiera się w nowej karcie) 10.17016/feds.2020.004
Weryfikacja:: Brak weryfikacji