We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …

, especially for Europe, little is known about whether and how the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) affected the diversity of private …

category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from … households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a … risk, and is unique in recovering for, any given risky asset class, the shares that are reallocated to a safer asset …

We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …

We show how to use panel data on household consumption to directly estimate households’ risk preferences. Specifically … preferences. Full insurance cannot be rejected. As the risk-sharing as-if-complete-markets theory might predict, estimated risk …, we measure heterogeneity in risk aversion among households in Thai villages using a full risk-sharing model, which we …

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 …

Despite a considerable premium on equity with respect to risk free assets, many households do not own stocks. We ask … why the prevalence of stockholding is so limited. We focus on individuals' attitudes towards risk and identify relevant … factors that affect the willingness to take financial risks. Our empirical evidence contradicts standard portfolio theory, as …

From standard portfolio-choice theory it is well-understood that background risk, overwhelmingly due to wage risk, is … one of the central determinants of individuals’ portfolio composition: higher background risk reduces risky investments …. However, if background risk is negatively correlated with financial market risk, higher background risk implies more risky …

This paper analyzes the distribution of household portfolios in Türkiye using a fresh data set, the Central Bank of the … Republic of Türkiye - Household Finance and Consumption Survey. The empirical analysis concentrates on the motives behind … household saving preferences and the distribution of household portfolios. Moreover, the financial situation of households in …