We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …

citizens would benefit, for three reasons, from pension saving in a risk-free savings account. First, citizens would have a … no reasons why the European Union and individual member states should not allow individual risk-free pension savings …

In this paper we propose an integrated approach to assessing risk for alternative investment funds, both at micro and … Competent Authorities on assessing risk for other type of financial intermediaries (ex. banks, insurance companies), we … construct a risk dashboard for Alternative Investment Funds. Our proposed framework includes multiple categories of indicators …