Does economic policy uncertainty affect household stockholding? To answer this question we create a novel measure of household exposure to economic policy uncertainty news by combining survey information on the hours a household spends in reading newspapers and the frequency of such news in the...

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper re-examines the classic question of how a household should optimally allocate its portfolio between risky stocks and...

This study analyses the risk dependence of international stock portfolio based on three risk metrics, namely, the portfolio expected return, CVaR, and the Sharp ratio. The portfolio is optimised under both multivariate GARCH models (DCC and GO-CARCH) and the copula approaches (Student t...

It is a universally accepted principle that risk and return of investing are commensurate. However, people give more importance to return and risk takes a back seat. This study is an attempt to understand the perceptions of 120 investors in Gandhinagar region towards risk and return of investing...