Risk Tolerance in Financial Decision Making

LUISA ANDERLONI Full Professor of Corporate Finance at the Faculty of Political SCiences, University of Milan, Italy ROSITA BORLIMI psychotherapist at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy NICOLETTA MARINELLI iResearch Fellow in Economics of Financial Intermediaries at the Faculty of Economics, 'La Sapienza' University, Rome, Italy CAMILLA MAZZOLI Assistant Professor of Economics of Financial Intermediaries at the Faculty of Economics, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy VALERIA NUCIFORA psychotherapist at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy CRISTINA OTTAVIANI postdoc at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy GIULIO PALOMBA Assistant Professor of Econometrics at the Faculty of Economics, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy DANIELA VANDONE Assistant Professor of Economics of Financial Intermediaries at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy

Introduction; C.Lucarelli The Role of Risk in the Investment Decision Process: Traditional vs Behavioural Finance; C.Mazzoli & N.Marinelli Household Behaviour and Debt Demand; D.Vandone The Traditional Approach to Risk Tolerance; C.Mazzoli & N.Marinelli Risk of Over-indebtedness and Behavioural Factors; L.Anderloni & D.Vandone Decision Making: Psychological Perspective; C.Ottaviani, V.Nucifora, R.Borlimi & G.Brighetti The Layout of the Empirical Analysis; C.Lucarelli, C.Ottaviani & D.Vandone The Indicators of Risk; C.Lucarelli & G.Palomba Results on the Investment Side; C.Lucarelli The Determinants of Household Debt Holding: An Empirical Analysis; D.Vandone & C.Ottaviani The Implications for Market Participants and Regulators; G.Brighetti, C.Lucarelli & D.Vandone