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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Risk Attitude"”.
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The relationship between risk attitude and advertising creativity
This research examines the relationship between risk and creativity in advertising, so that practitioners and academics can achieve further and deeper insight into the factors and situations that enhance or detract &om advertising creativity. It begins with an assessment of the literature on risk …
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Risk Attitude and Its Application Towards Military Leadership
… Dissertation in Practice examines the role of risk in the decision-making process as perceived by Air Force military officers. This cross-sectional, qualitative, descriptive study used a semi-structured interview to explore the experiences of fourteen participants who were serving in squadron …
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Factors influencing the adoption of mobile banking among generation Y in Malaysia
… usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived risk, attitude, and behavioral intention to use mobile banking. It is suggested that banks in Malaysia should focus on mobile banking usefulness, easiness, and security to further promote efficient service delivery and increase the adoption of …
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The use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to explore how risk characteristics influence athletic pacing.
… athletic task has highlighted the importance of risk in sports. Athletes with lower perceptions of risk display relatively faster initial pacing strategies than higher risk perceivers, yet it is not understood how risk has this effect within individual athletes. This thesis is directed at gaining …
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Failure record discounting in Bayesian analysis in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) : a space system application
… of failure on demand in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), the corresponding number of observed failures may be not directly applicable due to design or procedure changes that have been implemented in the system as a result of past failures. A methodology has been developed by NASA to …
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Source credibility and the persuasiveness of public saftey messages communicated via social media
… were controlled other factors such as perceived risk, attitude and user involvement, organizational sources were still found to be significantly more credible than individual sources, but not significantly more persuasive. The findings of this pilot study offer rich opportunities for future …
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Experimental tests of fundamental economic theories
… hypothesis implied by the constant relative risk averse model of first price sealed bid auction theory and standard risk preference theory. This test will be used to determine whether observed risk attitude is solely a characteristic of the individual (as conventional economic theory has it) …
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Risk Analysis of Adopting Conservation Practices on a Representative Peanut-Cotton Farm in Virginia
… and sediment losses of a representative risk-neutral and risk-averse peanut-cotton farmer in Southeast Virginia. Five currently popular rotations and eight alternative conservation rotations are evaluated for the representative farm. The Erosion-Productivity Impact Calculator (EPIC) model …
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Risk management of building project budgets.
… concerned with the development of a conceptual risk management model, to be used by quantity surveyors, during the establishment of initial budgets for building construction projects.The thesis is introduced with a discussion about the problem and challenge of accurate budgeting in the UK …
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Alternative design optimization formulations – developing and comparing for a vibration damping example
… in that situation, given the decision maker’s risk attitude and preference.
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Essays on statistical economics with applications to financial market instability, limit distribution of loss aversion, and harmonic probability weighting functions
… models of decision making in the presence of risk with applications to economics and finance. The methodology draws upon economics, finance, psychology, mathematics and statistics. Each essay contributes to the literature by either introducing new theories and empirical predictions or …
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Heavy Tails and Anomalous Diffusion in Human Online Dynamics
… characteristics and probability reweighting in risk attitude of online gamblers, which may help to interpret behaviors in economic systems. This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation through grants DMR-1205309 and DMR-1606814.
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An Evaluation of Skilled Immigration in the United States
… demographic characteristics, employment, income, risk attitude, and health status. Though less-educated immigrants are at a larger disadvantage than well-educated immigrants, a significant immigrant-native coverage gap still exists in the highly-educated population. Conditioning on working for an …
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An Empirical Analysis of Financial Optimism and Portfolio Choice
… that optimistic investors prefer to invest in risky portfolios to risk-free portfolios, and borrow higher debt and larger mortgages. Optimists are significantly younger with lower accumulated financial wealth compared to non-optimists. Financial optimism is found to be beneficial in improving …
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An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Attitudes toward Drone Delivery and the Moderating Effect of COVID-19
<p>This research explored the factors affecting attitudes toward drone delivery and the moderating effect of COVID-19. Government effort to address the COVID-19 pandemic has led to social distancing and shelter-in-place guidelines. Many states have imposed additional regulations, restricting …
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An Analysis and Improvement of Robo-Advisory
… a scalable, auditable LLM-driven RA, and limited risk-matched evidence on realised outcomes. Six questions frame the work: RQ1–RQ2 on questionnaires, portfolios and strategies; RQ3 on a mathematical framework; RQ4 on a ChatGPT-4o-based RA; and RQ5–RQ6 on risk-adjusted performance overall and …
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Opportunity identification in MNC subsidiaries: context and performance implications
… such as the subsidiary’s innovation propensity, risk attitude and external networking with non-direct value-chain members, are critical. Also, factors determining the parent-subsidiary relationship, such as the subsidiary’s autonomy levels and the flows of “strategic” knowledge and skills between …
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Risk-based Security Management in Critical Infrastructure Organizations
… defenses insufficient. Therefore, concerns over risks like terrorism, crime, and business revenue loss increasingly impose the need for enhancing and managing security within the boundaries of these systems so that unwanted incidents (e.g., potential intrusions) can still be detected with higher …
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Growing with the flow: Investigating nature-based approaches to mitigate flooding in the Pacific Islands
… a socio-cognitive model to NFM, using the Risk-Attitude-Norms-Ability-Self-Regulation (RANAS) approach. This method was used to better understand flood and catchment practitioner NFM approaches through interviews, in Fiji and the Cook Islands. NFM enabling factors were identified including …
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The implications of information processing efficiency on decision making
… three different settings were used. First, attitudes and perceptions held by individual decision makers play an important role in the information processing stage of a decision. Therefore, the first thrust of this thesis seeks to investigate the impact of demographic characteristics of …
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