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title: Retail Investor Response
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5053211/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5053211
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5053211
featured: 2024-12-12
citations: unknown
topic: Derivatives & Volatility
---


# Retail Investor Response

The study shows that monetary policy shocks in open economies lead to a shift in assets, with wealthier clients showing a stronger shift from fixed income securities to riskier options.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5053211
- Identifier: SSRN 5053211
- Released: 2024-12-12
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 78 (2024-12-12): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-12-12/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Derivatives & Volatility

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