What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Estimating the Roles of Beliefs and Risk Preferences

We thank John Beshears, John Campbell, Xavier Gabaix, Sam Hanson, David Laibson, Erik Loualiche, Stavros Panageas, Andrei Shleifer, Paolo Sodini, Adi Sunderam, Kairong Xiao, Motohiro Yogo, and seminar and conference participants at Harvard Business School, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Micro and Macro Implications of Household Behaviour and Financial Decision-Making Seminar, NBER Asset Pricing Meetings, Oklahoma State University, Southern Methodist University, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, the University of Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference, the University of North Carolina Roundtable for Junior Faculty in Finance, the University of Texas, and the University of Toulouse. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Division of Research of the Harvard Business School. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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