Household Risk Taking after the Financial Crisis

Sarah Necker and Michael Ziegelmeyer

No 85, BCL working papers from Central Bank of Luxembourg

Abstract: This study investigates whether and how the crisis in 2008/2009 affects households' risk attitudes, subjective risk and return expectations, and planned financial risk taking using the German SAVE study. Households' wealth change from end-2007 to end-2009 is not found to have an effect. However, households that attribute losses to the crisis decreased their risk tolerance and planned risk taking; the probability of expecting an increase in risks and returns is raised. According to economic theory, wealth changes attributed to a dramatic event should not have a different effect than other wealth changes. The results suggest an emotional reaction.

Keywords: Financial and economic crisis; risk preferences; stock market expectations; wealth fluctuations; emotions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 D81 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2014-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-sog and nep-upt
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