Individual financial risk tolerance and the global financial crisis

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 165-185

  Gerrans, Paul ^a   Faff, Robert ^b   Hartnett, Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

FinaMetrica; Financial risk tolerance; Global financial crisis; Risk attitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925133981     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12053     Document Type: Article

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