comparably low returns and high risk has become known as the private equity premium puzzle. This paper provides evidence … supporting the hypothesis that lower risk aversion of entrepreneurs, and not necessarily credit constraints, may explain this … portfolios and experimentally validated risk attitudes. The results show that both the ownership probability and the conditional …

&P and downward trending Nikkei, are compared. In conclusion, average investor's risk and return ratios improve with horizon …

comparably low returns and high risk? This paper connects several streams of literature to shed some light on this puzzle and … financial markets and that entrepreneurs are less risk-averse than the rest of the population. A focus of this paper is …, therefore, on the role of heterogeneous risk attitudes in entrepreneurial decisions, specifically portfolio choice and the entry …

This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment …

and female investors differ in propensity for risk taking and performance of investments. Contrary to most existing … studies, I find no evidence for gender differences. Males and females exhibit similar levels of risk propensity and their …

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first … examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive … measures of individual propensity for taking risk, the results of the regression analysis show that, along with some …

and female investors differ in propensity for risk taking and performance of investments. Contrary to most existing … studies, I find no evidence for gender differences. Males and females exhibit similar levels of risk propensity and their …