We investigate two alternative explanations why men may hold more stocks than women. Apart from a gender difference in … risk aversion, gender differences in either optimism or in perceived risk of financial markets might cause men to hold more … risky assets. Our results show that men tend to be significantly more optimistic than women regarding a broad range of …

probability of actually hitting the mean values. Simulations are conducted with different fixed fishing mortality levels under 6 … scenarios. It seems that a constant fishing mortality around 0.06 is optimal. In the end, a comparison is made between …