The financial risk tolerance of married couples was examined in order to determine if assertiveness impacted their … and the Couples' Risk Tolerance Questionnaire. Although asset ownership and the wife's cohort affected the couple …'s assertiveness, assertiveness itself did not notably impact their combined financial or portfolio risk tolerance. However, wife …

standing in the marriage market and that they care about their standing in that market more than married men do, we find that a … stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more …

standing in the marriage market and that they care about their standing in that market more than married men do, we find that a … stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more …

standing in the marriage market and that they care about their standing in that market more than married men do, we find that a … stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more …

men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …

Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry …