Income Risk, Borrowing Constraints, and Portfolio Choice

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 158-172

  Guiso, Luigi ^a   Jappelli, Tullio ^b,c   Terlizzese, Daniele ^a  

^a Research Department   (Italy)

^b Istituto Universitario Navale   (Italy)

^c CEPR ^*

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