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Chinese urban households' security market participation : does investment knowledge and having a long-term plan help?
(2015)
Investment in the securities markets is vital to households' wealth accumulation and financial security. Using data from the 2008 Survey of Chinese Consumer Finance and Investor Education, we found that self-assessed ...
Effects of age on saving motives of Chinese urban consumers
(2014)
The Chinese maintain one of the highest saving rates in the world. Although saving is generally regarded as a good practice, in a market economy, extremely high saving rates can constrain welfare enhancing consumption and ...
Use of financial planners and portfolio performance
(2016)
Using modern information economics as the conceptual framework and data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study adopts a decomposition technique to explore the relationship between the primary information ...
Source of information and projected household investment portfolio performance
(2016)
Using modern information economics as the conceptual framework and data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study adopts a decomposition technique to explore the relationship between the primary information ...
Market performance and the timing of retirement
(2012)
This study is the first to utilize nine interview waves of the Health and Retirement Study and multilevel discrete-time survival analysis to investigate the effect of market returns on individual elective retirement ...
An exploratory study of Chinese Americans' debt holding
(2011)
Postprint. Research concerning the financial well-being of Chinese American households is extremely limited. This article examines factors that affect the probability that Chinese American households will hold debt. Analysis ...
Gender differences in financial risk tolerance
(2017)
The purpose of this research is to explore gender differences in financial risk tolerance using a large, nationally representative dataset, the Survey of Consumer Finances. The impact of the explanatory variables in the ...
Millennials' retirement saving behavior : account ownership and balance
(2017)
Millennials is the largest population in the United States. Compared with their parents and grandparents, they have to shoulder more responsibilities to prepare financially for retirement. It is critical for Millennials ...
Self-perceived age and attitudes toward marketing of older consumers in China
(2010)
Understanding consumer psychological characteristics and their impact on consumer behavior is an important foundation for business marketing strategies. Self-perceived age has a great impact on older consumers' behavior. ...
Family finances in urban China : evidence from a national survey
(2010)
This paper presents an overview of consumer financial well-being in transitional China. It provides an up-to-date and overall description of the Chinese urban households’ assets, liabilities, income, and consumption patterns. ...