-sectional components in BAC outperform on a risk-adjusted basis. However, this effect arises purely from the positive association between …

phenomenon to funding liquidity risk. We demonstrate that price pressure driven by demand for lottery-like stocks plays a … for lottery demand, the betting against beta phenomenon disappears, while other firm characteristics, measures of risk …

Experimental studies show that people's risk preferences depend non-linearly on probabilities, but relatively little is … risk averse preference relation in general choose a more risky final wealth distribution, receiving a risk premium in … return for accepting conditional-zero-mean noise (more risk). We also propose a new scenario-based notion of less risk taking …

individual financial risk taste changes over time with the background macroeconomic and financial conditions, as well as personal … and subjective exposure to portfolio risk. Considering six different self-assessed facets, we find that risk appetite is … higher during periods of economic growth and lower during periods of recession. Risk taste is however unrelated to time when …

This paper focuses on risk tolerance which clearly influences financial decision making. We explore the emotional side … of a risk taking behaviour, comparing alternative measures of financial risk tolerance resulting from the consilience of … unbiased risk tolerance (UR), which is obtained from the psycho physiological reactions of individuals taking risk in …

We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …

arbitrary (but finite) number of projects and the termination time. The optimal policy depends on the projects' risk …-adjusted drifts that are determined by their drifts, volatilities and the curvature (or relative risk aversion) of the agent's payoff … function. We prove that the optimal policy only selects projects in the spanning subset. Further, if the projects' risk …

We empirically compare the consistency among several measures of risk-taking and patience by evaluating how these …

labor-income risk can explain much of this risk-taking pattern. Uncontrollable labor-income risk stresses middle …, middle-income households reduce (controllable) financial risk. Richer households, having less pressure, can afford more risk …-taking. The poor take low risk because they avoid jeopardizing their subsistence consumption. …

or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment … characterizes rare disasters, results in lower risk-taking at the beginning of working life, and is crucial in order to match the …