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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Risk Attitudes"”.
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Risk attitudes and affective states among young adults
… study examines how negative emotions influence risk attitudes and chance attitudes profiles among young adults using data from a novel behaviour modification programme targeted at young adults in South Africa. Risk attitudes are estimated structurally by assuming a stan-dard power utility …
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The choice-theoretic characterizations of risk changes and risk attitudes in cumulative prospect theory : a stochastic dominance approach
… an effective tool to characterize individuals’ risk attitudes in decision making under risk by comparing risky prospects. The emergence of the cumulative prospect theory (CPT), developed by Kahneman and Tversky (1979) and Tversky and Kahneman (1992), provides a prominent alternative to the …
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Risk attitudes, competition and career choices : The willingness to take risk and the choice of further education among Finnish upper secondary school students
The subject of this thesis is risk attitudes and the choice of further education among Finnish secondary school students. Data comes from a survey compiled in 2011 for 18 secondary schools in Finland. The data has 3418 respondents in total, 1984 (approximately 58 percent) of whom are female. There …
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Body Image and Sexuality Among Latino Youth
… Latino adolescent sexual health such as sexual risk behavior and attitudes is imperative. An understudied area with respect to Latino youth sexual behavior is the role that an adolescent’s perception of his/her body has on sexual risk attitudes and behaviors and the possible moderating role of …
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An agency/transactions-costs approach and application to vertical coordination arrangements in food and agricultural markets
… under conditions of uncertainty and different risk attitudes, the study's main argument has been that both individuals' characteristics (such as risk attitudes, leverage position, and size) and transaction attributes jointly determine optimal vertical coordination mode decisions. An …
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An experimental analysis of the risk-trust confound
… However, many researchers have argued that risk attitudes may confound the measurement of trust because trusting decisions involve outcomes that have only some probability of occurring. This study therefore seeks to question whether risk attitudes predict trusting decisions in the Berg, …
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Behavioural economic applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation: public good games and risk experiments
… The papers in Section 2 examine the role of risk and uncertainty in individuals' adaptive strategies. The correlation between risk attitudes and individuals' flood adaptation strategies is examined in the third paper: "Risk Attitudes and Adaptation: Experimental Evidence from a Flood Prone …
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Empirical and behavioural economic applications to the energy sector
… papers ascertain the role of competition and risk preferences among entrepreneurs working in off-grid renewable energy microenterprises and its effects on business success in the context of including more women as entrepreneurs in the energy sector. Specifically, the second paper: 'Competition …
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Simulating the Adoption of Soil Conservation Management Systems Under the Conditions of Uncertainty (Erosion, Control)
… a planning horizon of more than one year, risk and uncertainty enter into the plans. Over time it is difficult to predict farm income due to variability in prices, costs, interest rates, weather, crop yields, and other unpredictable factors. Any long-term planning will be incomplete if it …
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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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The Context-Dependence of the Process of Risky Choice
The evaluation of risk is a fundamental aspect of decision-making and influences important outcomes, such as in the domain of financial and health behavior. In many economic applications, risk attitudes are assumed to be inherently stable. Nonetheless, behavioral tasks that elicit risk preferences …
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Disaggregate behavioural land use modelling: Integration of housing search, job search and households' dynamics
… impact from life-course events and financial risk attitudes are studied in the first part of this research practice. Initially, the impact of households’ future tenure choice on the timing of relocation is investigated. The postulated hypothesis in this part is that in addition to current …
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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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Essays on Physiological and Psychological Influences of Economic Preferences
… that more intelligent individuals are less risk-averse, finding instead that intelligence reduces behavioral noise and improves choice consistency, without shifting underlying risk attitudes. The third paper examines impulsivity and finds no meaningful relationship between this personality …
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Incentive design for quality investment by smallholder producers
… effort from producers of different risk attitudes and defaulting likelihoods. In this paper, we consider a producer-agribusiness supply chain with stochastic wholesale market price and random production yield. We model the three commonly-observed pricing schemes of contract farming …
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Fire prevention and risk aversion among informal urban dwellers in Cape Town
… experimental evidence on fire prevention and risk aversion among urban informal settlers using lottery choice data with real monetary prizes. The paper estimates the risk attitudes of a sample of 174 individuals from an informal housing development in Cape Town. The empirical analysis is …
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