An exploratory investigation of the relation between risk tolerance scores and demographic characteristics

Journal of Multinational Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 483-502

  Hallahan, Terrence ^a   Faff, Robert ^b   McKenzie, Michael ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Risk assessment heuristics; Risk tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042209636     PISSN: 1042444X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1042-444X(03)00022-7     Document Type: Article

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