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soleindex of risk attitude. (Cumulative) Prospect theory (CPT) has demonstrated vari-ous empirical deficiencies of EU and …Economics and management science share the tradition of ordering risk aversionby fitting the best expected utility (EU … introduced the weighting of probabilities as anadditional component to capture risk attitude. However, if utility curvature and …
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The Porter hypothesis suggests that environmental regulations, such as restricting firms to reduce pollution, stimulates innovations and create a win-win situation for the environment and for firms. It has received a great deal of attention from academics as well as bureaucrats who disagree...
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In a large-scale laboratory experiment, we investigate whether subjects’ scores on the cognitivereflection test (CRT …
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In the framework of expected utility theory, risk attitudes are entirely capturedby the curvature of the utility … function. In cumulative prospect theory (CPT) riskattitudes have an additional dimension: the weighting of probabilities. With … thismodication, one question arises naturally: since both utility and probability weight-ing determine the attitude towards risk …
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Human decision making is a process guided by different and partly competing mo-tivations that can each dominate behavior and lead to different effects depending on strength and circumstances. “Over-stylizing” neglects such competing concerns and context-dependence, although it facilitates...
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This paper reports results of an experiment designed to analyze the link between riskydecisions made by couples and … risky decisions made separately by each spouse. We estimateboth the spouses and the couples’ degrees of risk aversion and we … assess how the risk preferencesof the two spouses aggregate when they make risky decisions. This enables us to investigatethe …
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derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on …
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individual payoffs, is a potentially competing concern in games such as the prisoners' dilemma. In our experiment participants …
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In a large scale newspaper experiment 5,132 readers of the German weekly, Die Zeit, participated in a three … experiment. Furthermore, student behavior is not different from non-student behavior when the same age group is considered …
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Vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Motiven der Existenzgründung im Handwerk. Weiterhin soll geklärt werden, welche Besonderheiten die Existenzgründung im Vergleich zu anderen Wirtschaftsbereichen aufweist.
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