Household Portfolios And Implicit Risk Preference

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1235-1250

  Bucciol, Alessandro ^a,b   Miniaci, Raffaele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

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EID: 84861209034     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00138     Document Type: Article

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