Household portfolios/ edited by Luigi Guiso, Michael Haliassos, and Tullio Jappelli. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002. - xii, 496 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Papers presented at the Conference on Household Portfolios, held in Florence, Italy, Dec. 17-18, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-492) and index.

Introduction
Luigi Guiso, Michael Haliassos, and Tullio Jappelli
I Theoretical and Methodological Issues
1 What Does Theory Have to Say About Household
Portfolios?
Christian Collier
2 Calibration and Computation of Household Portfolio
Models
Michael Haliassos and Alexander Michaelides
3 Taxation and Portfolio Structure: Issues and Implications
James M. Poterba
4 Econometric Issues in the Estimation of Household Portfolio
Models
Raffaele Miniaci and Cuglielmo Weber
II Issues and Trends in Household Portfolios
5 Household Portfolios in the United States
Carol C. Bertaut and Martha Starr-McCluer
6 Household Portfolios in the United Kingdom
James Banks and Sarah Tanner
7 Household Portfolios in Italy
Luigi Guiso and Tulho Jappelli
8 Household Portfolios in Germany
Angelika Eymann and Axel Borsch-Supan
9 Household Portfolios in the Netherlands
Rob Alessie, Stefan Hochguertel, and Arthur Van Soest
10 Portfolios of the Rich
Christopher D. Carroll
11 Portfolio Holdings of the Elderly
Michael D. Hurd

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Portfolio management
Capital assets pricing model
Saving and investment

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