Risk and savings: a taxonomy

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2009.12.020MaRDI QIDQ969476zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Willem Gunning

Publication date 7 May 2010

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://papers.tinbergen.nl/08071.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

asset riskinvestment under risklabor income riskprecautionary savings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Individual preferences (91B08)

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