Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Nicolas Sauter
In: Economics Letters 134 (2015), September 2015, 45-48
This letter finds that East Germans with strong social ties invested earlier in a popular new financial product after reunification, while long-term ownership remained unaffected. Hence, studies of the economic impact of social networks should distinguish transitory from long-run effects.
Keywords: social networks, portfolio choice, split-population duration model, German reunification
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.06.010