three-months intervals for their willingness to take risk, three-months expectations of returns and risks for the market and … their own portfolio, and self-reported risk attitude. This unique dataset allowed us to analyze how these variables changed … over time, and whether changes in risk taking were related to changes in expectations and/or risk attitudes. Risk taking …

men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …

What determines investors' risk-taking across macroeconomic cycles? Researchers have proposed rational expectations … models that introduce countercyclical risk aversion to generate the empirically observed time variation in risk-taking. We …

This paper investigates two research questions: Do investors see a relationship between risk attitude and the amount … experimental study, investors allocate an amount between a risky and a risk-free asset. Investors' risk attitude predicts risk …

risk-taking across market cycles. As mechanism, we identify an asymmetry in how individuals update their expectations …