International audienceThis paper focuses on the consequences on asset allocation of an empirical fact outlined in a recent survey of the literature about risk aversion (Meyer and Meyer, 2005): Investors are more risk averse toward consumption than they are toward wealth. We demonstrate that this empirical fact can be assessed with the study of a single financial variable. This variable measures the share of wealth that investors set aside to satisfy their future consumption. We show that this variable depends on wealth only when the empirical case is considered. Our findings build on some methodological results developed by Karatzas et al. (1987) as well as insights provided by Wachter (2002) and Munk and Sørensen (2007) for the restricted ...
Households\u27 reported willingness to take financial risk is compared to the riskiness of their por...
We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the ma...
We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual rel...
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Modern literature departs from time-separable constant relative risk aversion preferences to explain...
According to standard theory, wealth should have no intrinsic value. Yet, conventional wisdom, recen...
According to standard theory, wealth should have no intrinsic value. Yet, conventional wisdom, recen...
Modern literature departs from time-separable constant relative risk aversion preferences to explain...
We analyze whether relative risk aversion varies with wealth. We first derive theoretical prediction...
Improvement in Economic Position through Risk-Taking: An Attempt to Map Intertemporal Risk-Consumpti...
Improvement in Economic Position through Risk-Taking: An Attempt to Map Intertemporal Risk-Consumpti...
Improvement in Economic Position through Risk-Taking: An Attempt to Map Intertemporal Risk-Consumpti...
Households\u27 reported willingness to take financial risk is compared to the riskiness of their por...
We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the ma...
We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual rel...
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions....
Modern literature departs from time-separable constant relative risk aversion preferences to explain...
According to standard theory, wealth should have no intrinsic value. Yet, conventional wisdom, recen...
According to standard theory, wealth should have no intrinsic value. Yet, conventional wisdom, recen...
Modern literature departs from time-separable constant relative risk aversion preferences to explain...
We analyze whether relative risk aversion varies with wealth. We first derive theoretical prediction...
Improvement in Economic Position through Risk-Taking: An Attempt to Map Intertemporal Risk-Consumpti...
Improvement in Economic Position through Risk-Taking: An Attempt to Map Intertemporal Risk-Consumpti...
Improvement in Economic Position through Risk-Taking: An Attempt to Map Intertemporal Risk-Consumpti...
Households\u27 reported willingness to take financial risk is compared to the riskiness of their por...
We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the ma...
We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual rel...