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between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler maxmin with multiple priors framework to lenders …
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. The survey contains information on a sample of executives' risk preferences and human capital, on the explicit and … than non-family firms. Managers differ in their degree of risk aversion and talent. The entry of firms and managers, the … risk-tolerant managers are matched with firms that offer steeper contracts. (iii) Managers who face steeper contracts work …
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We model the demand-pressure effect on prices when options cannot be perfectly hedged. The model shows that demand pressure in one option contract increases its price by an amount proportional to the variance of the unhedgeable part of the option. Similarly, the demand pressure increases the...
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averse to risk and ambiguity. The evidence is largely correlational, however, leaving open the question of the direction of … causality. In this paper, we present experimental evidence of causation running from reliance on intuition to risk and ambiguity … lowers the probability of being ambiguity averse by 30 percentage points and increases risk tolerance by about 30 percent in …
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utility function. We then fit the experimental choices to this model to assess the risk attitude of our subjects. Despite the … substantial heterogeneity across subjects, decreasing absolute risk aversion and increasing relative risk aversion are the most … prevalent risk types, and we can classify more than 50% of the subjects in this combined category. We also find evidence of …
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experiment to measure risk attitudes. We find robust evidence of substantial risk aversion. As an extension, we esimate the … various models using transformations of the ‘true’ probabilities to decision weights. The estimated degree of risk aversion … increases further, while players tend to overestimate substantially their chances of winning. Constant Relative Risk Aversion …
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This paper shows that a strictly increasing and risk averse utility function with decreasing absolute risk aversion is … necessarily differentiable with a positive and absolutely continuous derivative. The cumulative absolute risk aversion function …, called the absolute risk aversion density, is a generalization of the coefficient of absolute risk aversion, and it is well …
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This paper analyzes the effects of network positions and individual risk attitudes on individuals' strategic decisions … factors, such as the number of (direct) neighbors, local clustering and individuals' risk attitudes. …
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We show that in order to determine whether one decision-maker is more risk averse than another, it is sufficient to … comparisons of risk aversion can be made even in situations of ‘background risk’. Since expected utility becomes a function of … mean and standard deviation, risk aversion can be measured by the marginal rate of substitution between mean and standard …
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Using a large sample of retail investors as well as experimental data we find that risk and ambiguity aversion are … positively correlated. We show the common link is decision style: intuitive thinkers tolerate more risk and ambiguity than … find that risk and ambiguity aversion vary with individual characteristics and wealth. The wealthy are less risk averse but …
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