The brighter side of financial risk: Financial risk tolerance and wealth

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 233-256

  Finke, Michael S ^a   Huston, Sandra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Risk tolerance; Wealth accumulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043128765     PISSN: 10580476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025443204681     Document Type: Article

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