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Broadband Internet and the Stock Market Investments of Individual Investors / Hans K. Hvide, Tom G. Meling, Magne Mogstad, Ola L. Vestad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hvide, Hans K.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30383.
- NBER working paper series no. w30383
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- We study the effects of broadband internet use on the investment decisions of individual investors. A public program in Norway provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use causes a substantial increase in stock market participation, driven primarily by increased fund ownership. Existing investors tilt their portfolios towards funds, thereby obtaining more diversified portfolios and higher Sharpe ratios, and do not increase their trading activity in stocks. Overall, access to high-speed internet seems to spur a "democratization of finance", with individuals making investment decisions that are more in line with the advice from portfolio theory.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2022.
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