In Germany and many other countries, financial advisors are required by law to assess their clients' risk preferences in order to help them make informed and appropriate investment decisions. Most institutions that provide financial advice-banks, for instance-carry out this assessment using just...

In vielen Ländern der Welt, Deutschland eingeschlossen, sind Finanzberater (hier Personen, die Privatanleger bei Finanzanlagen beraten) heutzutage gesetzlich verpflichtet, die Risikoeinstellung ihrer Kunden zu erfassen, um ihnen dabei zu helfen, die passendste Anlageentscheidung zu treffen. Die...

We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how they explain an extensive set of risky behavior from a large household survey. We find overall positive correlation between items and low explanatory power in terms of behavior. Using an average of seven risk elicitation...

We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how they robustly explain eleven kinds of risky behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex...

We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how they robustly explain eleven kinds of risky behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex...

We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how robustly they explain eleven kinds of risky behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex...