A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience, creativity and attention/focus. Our main finding is that chess … training reduces the level of risk aversion almost a year after the intervention ended. We also find that chess training …, these (non-risk preference) results are less conclu-sive once we account for multiple hypothesis testing. We do not find any …

A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

national security as of March 2022. Fourth, firm-level risk perceptions skewed heavily to the downside in spring 2020 but …