A test of traditional and psychometric relative risk tolerance measures on household financial risk taking
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2019.03.012
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Keywords
Risk aversion; Risk tolerance; Income gambles; Psychometric assessment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
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