This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions … triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory … they should not? - How do investors deal with such crises in terms of their risk measurement and management and, as a …

theory suggests that with increasing labor income risk, the reluctance of households to hold stocks increases. We propose to … measure income risk as the observed variation of household income over a five year period. We find that indeed higher income … risk reduces the propensity to invest in stocks. However, when controlling for household heterogeneity as well as …

degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …