Informative Social Interactions

Luc Arrondel, Hector Calvo-Pardo, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Michael Haliassos
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Hector Fernando Calvo Pardo

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We design, field and exploit survey data from a representative sample of the French population to examine whether informative social interactions enter households.stockholding decisions. Respondents report perceptions about their circle of peers with whom they interact about financial matters, their social circle and the population. We provide evidence for the presence of an information channel through which social interactions influence perceptions and expectations about stock returns, and financial behavior. We also find evidence of mindless imitation of peers in the outer social circle, but this does not permeate as many layers of financial behavior as informative social interactions do.

Keywords: Information networks; Social interactions; Subjective expectations; Peer effects; Portfolio choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C42 D12 D83 D84 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-14
Note: cg349
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