Financial Economists have over the years gained many insights from surveys of crop farmers in so far as different aspects of economic activity are concerned. In this study, using micro level survey data obtained from small scale entrepreneurs (farmers), I obtain a strictly concave inverted "U"...

Suppose absence of agency problems in interactions between a representative angel investor who already is invested in a project (a 'pre-existing' angel investor), and a representative `entering' venture capitalist who provides a new infusion of capital into the same project. This study finds...

There exists debate as to whether markets consist of heterogeneous realizations of risk averse agents, or a mix of risk averse and risk seeking agents. This study provides formal theoretical general equilibrium evidence that agents in any market are parameterized by either of global risk...