Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk-Taking in Margin Lending
American Economic Review 106(11), pp. 3367-3400 (2016)
Abstract
What determines risk-bearing capacity and the amount of leverage in financial markets? Using unique archival data on collateralized lending, we show that personal experience can affect individual risk-taking and aggregate leverage.
Peter Koudijs, Hans-Joachim Voth (2016). “Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk-Taking in Margin Lending.” American Economic Review.