@article{1386342,
      recid = {1386342},
      author = {Guiso, Luigi. and Haliassos, Michael. and Jappelli,  Tullio.},
      title = {Household portfolios /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 496 pages) :},
      year = {2002},
      note = {Papers presented at the Conference on Household  Portfolios, held in Florence, Italy, Dec. 17-18, 1999.},
      abstract = {Theoretical and empirical analysis of the structure of  household portfolios.Until recently, researchers in  economics and finance paid relatively little attention to  household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most  households to hold simple portfolios, the inability of the  dominant asset pricing models to account for household  portfolio incompleteness, and the lack of detailed  databases on household portfolios in many countries until  the late 1980s or 1990s. Now, however, the analysis of  household portfolios is emerging as a field of vigorous  study.The eleven chapters in this collection provide an  overview of current theoretical knowledge about the  structure of household portfolios and compare predictions  with empirical findings. The book describes the  state-of-the-art tools of analytical, computational, and  econometric investigation, as well as some of the key  policy questions. It provides an original comparative  analysis of household portfolios in countries for which  detailed household-level data are available (the United  States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and the  Netherlands). Finally, it uses microdata for an in-depth  study of the portfolio composition of population groups of  special policy interest, such as the young, the elderly,  and the rich.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386342},
}