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The Relation between Return and Income

Shlomo Yitzhaki

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1987

This paper presents evidence that the corporate stock owned by high-income investors appreciates substantially faster than the stock owned by investors with lower incomes. The evidence indicates that the differences are large and that they have persisted for a long period of time. Some potential explanations of this phenomenon are discussed, and it seems that the best explanation is that the rich have a higher tendency to invest in risky stock.

DOI
10.2307/1884681
Volume
102 (1)
Pages
77
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