A further look at household portfolio choice and health status

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1201-1217

  Berkowitz, Michael K ^a   Qiu, Jiaping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health status; Portfolio choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645864931     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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