We develop a structural econometric model to elicit household-specific expectations about future financial asset returns and risk attitudes by using data on observed portfolio holdings and self-assessed willingness to bear financial risk. Our framework assumes that household portfolios are...

We use the SHIW panel dataset to characterize the properties of household income patterns in Italy. Our model treats income as a linear combination of deterministic, persistent AR(1) and transitory MA(1) components. We find the typical hump-shape commonly observed on US data only for households...

We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice is associated with a reallocation of wealth away from real estate and towards bonds and stocks, especially when households seek financial advice "for investments". Having a...

We exploit the US Survey of Consumer Finances from 1998 to 2010 to study households' portfolio risk. We compare alternative measures of ex-ante risk, based on a financial portfolio including deposits, bonds and stocks, or a broader portfolio also including real estate, business wealth and...