Do investors put their money where their mouth is? Stock market expectations and investing behavior

Do politicians “ put their money where their mouth is ? ” Ideology and portfolio choice . ∗

To investigate how political tastes influence portfolio decisions, we exploit the mandatory disclosure of equity holdings made by U.S. Congress members and a continuous measure of ideology based on their voting records. By doing so, we address methodological issues facing the literature on political tastes and investment decisions. We find that politicians with similar beliefs hold similar equi...

Put your money where your mouth is.

University of Groningen Put Your Money Where Your Mouth

We present DIAL, a model of group dynamics and opinion dynamics. It features dialogues, in which agents gamble about reputation points. Intra-group radicalisation of opinions appears to be an emergent phenomenon. We position this model within the theoretical literature on opinion dynamics and social influence. Moreover, we investigate the effect of argumentation on group structure by simulation...

Speech Perception: When to Put Your Money Where the Mouth Is

Visual information augments our understanding of auditory speech. New evidence shows that infants' gaze fixations to the mouth and eye region shift predictably with changes in age and language familiarity.

'Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is' A Profile of Ethical Investors

This research sought to determine why people chose to invest in Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL), which conserves ecosystems and breeds endangered species as its corporate mission, an unequivocally ethical objective. Investors were surveyed to assess the relative importance of financial versus ecological considerations. Demographic and investor behavior attributes o f ESL shareholders were compa...