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title: Risk and Loss Aversion in Financial Decision Making
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5273091/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5273091
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5273091
featured: 2025-05-30
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Risk and Loss Aversion in Financial Decision Making

The research integrates risk and loss aversion into a model of household financial decision-making, finding that loss aversion significantly impacts participation, portfolio allocation, and savings decisions.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5273091
- Identifier: SSRN 5273091
- Released: 2025-05-28
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 99 (2025-05-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-05-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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