Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk Taking?

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, vol. 30, issue 6, 1971-2005

Abstract: Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see less frequent returns, portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or long-horizon (rather than one-year) historical return distributions. In contrast, we find that such information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky asset’s return distribution or to the introduction of a multiday delay between portfolio choice and return realizations.

JEL-codes: D03 D14 G02 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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