Time varying risk aversion / by Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales
Material type:
TextSeries: Journal of Financial Economics ; 128 (3)Publication details: Amsterdam Elsevier June 2018Description: Pages 403-421ISSN: - 0304-405X
| Cover image | Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | URL | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | Item hold queue priority | Course reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Periodicals
|
College Library Periodical Section | Available |
Abstract
Exploiting portfolio data and repeated surveys of an Italian bank's clients, we test whether investors’ risk aversion increases following the 2008 crisis. We find that, after the crisis, both qualitative and quantitative measures of risk aversion increase substantially and that affected individuals divest more stock. We investigate four explanations: changes in wealth, expected income, perceived probabilities, and emotion-based changes of the utility function. Our data are inconsistent with the first two channels, while they suggest that fear is a potential mechanism underlying financial decisions, whether by increasing the curvature of the utility function or the salience of negative outcomes.
There are no comments on this title.