Do Heterogeneous Background Risks Matterto Household Asset Allocation?

Cai, Mingchao; Shi, Jing; Yang, Ni; Pan, Rulu

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Do Heterogeneous Background Risks Matterto Household Asset Allocation?

Date

2013

Authors

Cai, Mingchao

Shi, Jing

Yang, Ni

Pan, Rulu

Publisher

Wiley Online Library

Abstract

This paper extends the literature reviews of Curcuru et al. (2009, Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam), on the heterogeneity of background risk during investment into the following categories: income from labor and entrepreneu