Down or out: Assessing the welfare costs of household investment mistakes

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 707-747

  Calvet, Laurent E ^a   Campbell, John Y ^b   Sodini, Paolo ^c  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SVERIGES RIKSBANK   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INVESTMENT; WELFARE IMPACT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 38949188939     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524204     Document Type: Article

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