For a sub-sample of French households of an Insee wealth survey, we obtain new and relative measures of 5 individual … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … have significant effects on wealth (financial, gross or net), which are consistent with theoretical predictions : wealth …

Consider an investor trading dynamically to maximize expected utility from terminal wealth. Our aim is to study the …

behavioral factors. The optimal wealth allocation between risky and risk-free assets results within a value-at-risk (VaR …

elasticity of risk aversion to changes in wealth. We find that wealthier investors are more risk averse in the cross section, and … that investors become more risk averse after a negative housing wealth shock. Thus, investors exhibit preferences …

We test whether relative risk aversion varies with wealth using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data in the U.S. Our … responds to wealth fluctuations, the income channel and the habit channel. For across households, there are heterogeneous … responses, and to provide strong evidence of relative risk aversion varying with wealth, after correcting two misspecification …

risk premium. We show that the dynamics of external additive habits with wealth inequality are complex when a background … risk is present. It is ambiguous whether wealth inequality will increase or decrease the equity premium even when the … income uncertainty is low. This result extends literature by suggesting that wealth inequality has a small role in explaining …

changes in wealth. In the cross section, we find that wealthier investors are more risk averse. Using changes in house prices … as a source of variation, we find that investors become more risk averse after a negative wealth shock. These preferences …

We use data from the PSID to investigate how households' portfolio allocations change in response to wealth … consequence that when the level of liquid wealth changes, the proportion a household invests in risky assets should also change in … is not affected by wealth changes. Instead, one of the major drivers of households' portfolio allocation seems to be …