The risk perceptions of individual investors

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 226-252

  Veld, Chris ^a   Veld Merkoulova, Yulia V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downside risk measures; Experimental questionnaire study; Individual investors; Risk profile; Semi variance; Shortfall; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249116827     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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