La finance est aujourd'hui au cœur de la polémique : certains la rendent responsable de la plus grave crise économique depuis la grande dépression des années trente alors que d'autres estiment qu'elle impose un véritable diktat aux États et que son emprise sur l'économie est devenue...

The article suggests social inclusion via the market and especially via pension funds in the Lula Administration. It shows how the dialogue between government, trade unions, union confederations, and the financial market reveals a convergence of interests among the above-mentioned actors,...

L'impact de l'investissement spéculatif est une question ancienne, mais renouvelée depuis quelques années suite à la forte augmentation des capitaux investis. Les travaux de recherche réalisés récemment concluent généralement au rejet de la causalité entre les positions sur les...

In this paper the relatively new technique of neural nets is integrated in a traditional model of portfolio choice. On the basis of Arrow’s State Preference Model the investment decision depends on the expectation building process which consists of two components. The individual information...

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more...

This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment decisions. The analysis is based on micro-level data from large-scale surveys of private households in five European countries. In our analysis of investment decisions, we directly...

Accurate credit-granting decisions are crucial to the efficiency of the decentralized capital allocation mechanisms in modern market economies. Credit bureaus and many financial institutions have developed and used credit-scoring models to standardize and automate, to the extent possible, credit...

Why don't people buy annuities? Several explanations have been provided by the previous literature: large fraction of preannuitized wealth in retirees' portfolios; adverse selection; bequest motives; and medical expense uncertainty. This paper uses a quantitative model to assess the importance...