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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Risk-loving"”.
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Algorithm and mechanism design with nonlinear preferences
… nonlinearities typically arise from different risk preferences, non-rationality, etc. Solving these problems is often computationally hard but can be beneficial by providing more revenue or welfare. In this thesis, I am going to investigate three problems: route planning with a nonlinear …
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Investor preferences in the securities options market
… literature of higher-order utility functions and risk-neutral valuation (RNV) in the options market are presented. Though investor attitudes towards risk are irrelevant in the non-arbitrage world of modern option pricing, to the extent the options market does not meet the non-arbitrage conditions, …
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Hedge Fund Essays
… an evidence of a hedge fund transparency risk premium. The first essay investigates the leverage of hedge funds in the time series and cross-section. Hedge fund leverage is found to be counter-cyclical to the leverage of listed financial intermediaries. Changes in hedge fund leverage tend …
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Environmental munificence, strategic posture and performance: an empirical survey of independent restaurants
… aggressiveness and a propensity towards risk-loving policies tended to have a negative effect on performance while quality service, as might be expected, tended to have a positive impact on performance. With respect to munificence, growth oriented environments were much better predictors …
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Essays on Entrepreneurship
… results show that businesses that are created by risk-loving individuals are more likely to fail regardless of the business formation.</p> <p>Chapter 2 expands the scope of Lazear's Jack-of-all trades (JAT) theory of entrepreneurship in multiple ways. First, a skill diversity measure is divided …
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Post-harvest loss in tropical soybean systems: Brazilian managers' perceptions and mitigation strategies: two manuscripts
… plant maize earlier in the season to avoid yield risk and increase total production (soybean + corn). The findings show that farmers accept soybean harvest loss in Brazil because “The financial benefits to reduce losses during harvest and post-harvest on their farms are small” and “The economic …
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Examining the Low Volatility Anomaly in Stock Prices
… with greater beta, a common measure of risk, require greater returns from investors in order to compensate them for taking greater risk. Therefore, under the premise that market participants act rationally and therefore markets run efficiently, investments with higher beta should …