The Less You Know, The More You Are Afraid of –A Survey on Risk Perception of Investment Products

We conducted a survey on risk perception of investment products in the German-speakingarea of Switzerland. Unlike the typical two-factor structure documented in the previousliterature, we found that the knowledge-related scales were highly correlated with the riskrelatedscales, whereas the correlation between perceived risk and historical risk measureswas much lower.[...]

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Year of publication:	2009-01-27
Authors:	Wang, Mei ; Keller, Carmen ; Siegrist, Michael
Institutions:	Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North South <Bern>
Subject:	Heuristik \| Heuristic Optimization \| Erwartung \| Zertifikat <Wertpapier> \| Heimvorteil \| Home field advantage

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Extent:	678912 bytes 30 p. application/pdf
Series:	FINRISK Working Paper Series Working Paper No. 520
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	G11 - Portfolio Choice ; G32 - Financing Policy; Capital and Ownership Structure ; Subject matter and research method of business administration ; Financial theory ; Capital budgeting, budgetary planning and budgetary control ; Management of financial services: stock exchange and bank management science (including saving banks) ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Switzerland
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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