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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"risk preference"”.
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Handling Risk: Testosterone and Risk Preference, Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
<p>The relationship between testosterone and risk aversion is of increasing interest in the experimental economics. Using the ratio of the second digit to the fourth digit (2D:4D) as a rough indicator of level of prenatal testosterone exposure, this study attempts to replicate recent results from …
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Essays on impact of risk preference on health and occupational choice
… heterogeneity among people regarding health risk as compared to that of financial risk as well as whether there exists racial-ethnic and gender heterogeneity in the health state dependence of marginal utility. Given heterogeneous risk and time preferences of individuals, this study …
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A Measure Of Entrepreneurial Risk Preference And Optimism Using Field Experiments
… data which captures the decision making and risk behaviors for a group of high-technology entrepreneurs. Two decision making tasks were used to elicit risk aversion measures and to test for any 'joy of winning' or judgmental errors, possibly in the form of over optimistic behavior. These …
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Age differences in risk-taking behaviour: the role of risk preference and cognitive ability
… age differences in decision-making under risk has yielded mixed findings. In some studies, older adults took more risk than younger adults, in other studies these findings were the opposite, and in some studies, there were no age differences at all. These mixed findings may result from a) …
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Individual Differences in the Perception of Risk, Preference, and Dissimilarity for Simple Three-Outcome Gambles
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:21:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606890.pdf: 8745147 bytes, checksum: 2632c856e0656db5b9abac509ddf0f8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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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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Why Risk It? The Effect of Risk and Time Preferences on Microfinance Loan Default
… reveal any</p> <p>difference in their level of risk preference and time preference. This is tested</p> <p>through an artefactual field experiment with 97 borrowers from the National</p> <p>Microfinance Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In the experiment,</p> <p>participants chose between …
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Experimental and self-reported measures of impulsivity: A reconsideration
… data collected in 2012, we consider how a risk preference task and a time preference task are related to the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 (BIS-11). We conduct joint maximum likelihood estimation to estimate discounting and risk preference parameters, and compare them to the BIS-11 total …
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Utility driven change of measure
… measure can be carried out based on the risk preference of a representative investor. Using the stochastic discount factor and the Radon-Nikod´ym derivative, we are able to obtain the risk-neutral measure given a real world measure and a preference structure defined by a utility function. …
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Incentives for Adoption of Site -Specific Technologies Under Uncertainty: Economic and *Environmental Implications
… technology adoption model under uncertainty and risk aversion to examine the incentives for adoption of SSCM and its farm-level impacts. The theoretical model shows that ignoring the input availability uncertainty and risk preferences of farmers results in misleading estimates of impacts of SSCM …
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Labor Migration in China
… impact of parental migration on children's risk preferences. In the first chapter, we briefly introduce the motivation and contribution, and then we provide the methods and detailed findings in the following chapters. Chapter 2 examines the impact of the endogeneity of the decision to …
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Various Financial Aspects of Cryptocurrencies
… in increasing returns irrespective of ones risk preference (assuming the willingness to take floor base risk). The last chapter is focused on analyzing the tail dependencies between cryptocurrencies. This analysis helps in understanding the possibility of spillovers between cryptocurrencies …
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The impact of risk and time preferences on smoking behaviour in the context of a contingency management programme
… is an established body of research examining risk preferences, time preferences and smoking behaviour, there is little literature exploring the relationship between risk preferences, time preferences, and smoking cessation contingency management (CM) programmes. This dissertation evaluates a …
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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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Optimal liquidation strategies
… is constrained by its variance and the investors risk preference. Parameters used in liquidity functions are estimated for securities on the South African JSE Securities Exchange. The effects of security liquidity, volatility, stock correlation and length of liquidation horizon on the optimal …
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A study of the effects of changing raw material prices and varying interest rates on the stockholding decisions of a small manufacturing company
… the assumption that the purchaser is at least risk-neutral if not risk-averse. This study reveals a pronounced bias in the opposite direction, namely risk-preference, in the case of essential oil traders. The study, in examining the market structure, also shows that there are peppermint farmers …
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Microfinance and Mobile phones: an economic analysis of the perceptions, management and measurement of environmental risk in rural Kenya
… management and measurement of climate risk within the context of smallholders in Kenya. It makes use of a unique data set comprising of nearly 200,000 adoptions of a pioneering weather index insurance that was bundled with a hybrid seed product and available over several seasons. The …
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The agency problem and New Zealand's listed property sector : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Property Studies at Lincoln University
… agency problems (effort; horizon; differential risk preference & asset use) while the real estate literature revealed other agency issues specific to real estate assets and LPVs. From a review of LPV prospectuses and the print media coverage of LPVs it was not possible to conclude with certainty …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Corporate Finance in Continuous Time
… decisions by examining how heterogeneity in risk preferences of decision-makers influences the joint dynamic of financial policies. Each member receives a non-tradable claim that reflects her risk preference. Claims are convex, S-shaped and concave for investors with the lowest, intermediate …
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