This paper investigates the effects of risk aversion on portfolio choices in terms of life insurance purchase and risky asset investment. The theoretical results show that households with very low degree of risk aversion allocate all of their investments to risky assets and have little desire to...

We merge the literature on downside return risk and liquidity risk and introduce the concept of extreme downside liquidity (EDL) risks. The cross-section of stock returns reflects a premium if a stock's return (liquidity) is lowest at the same time when the market liquidity (return) is lowest....