such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than …

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

is increasing in the tax rate as soon as a suitable relative risk aversion measure is larger with auditing, than without …

experiment in which they had to perform a task over fifteen stages grouped in three blocks or levels. In order to continue … through the experiment, a minimum level of success was required at the end of each level. Rewards were dependent on the final …, participants in the loss framing group choose to go further in the experiment. There was also a significant and interesting gender …

The classical expected utility model of decision under risk (von Neumann-Morgenstern, 1944) has been criticized from an … could dislike risk (prefer to any lottery its expectation) without necessarily avoiding any increase in risk ; diminishing … marginal utility may coexists with "weak" risk seeking attitudes ; decision makers with the same utility function may differ in …