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Financial Risk Aversion and Household Asset Diversification
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Economics. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5776-9396
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This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more sophisticated strategy of diversification and asks whether financial theory is compatible with observed diversification patterns. Based on the German Socioeconomic Panel which provides unique measures of individual propensity for taking risk, the results of the regression analysis show that, along with some socioeconomic characteristics, the propensity for taking investment risk is an important predictor of a household's diversification strategy. However, some of our findings are strongly at odds with what the concept of mean-variance utility suggests.

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Berlin: DIW , 2008.
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German Socio-Economic Panel Study - SOEP Papers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; 117
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-5898OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-5898DiVA, id: diva2:36718
Available from: 2008-07-21 Created: 2008-07-21 Last updated: 2020-12-04Bibliographically approved

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