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This paper explores the relationship between linguistic variation and individual attitudes toward risk and uncertainty. We propose an innovative marker that classifies languages according to the number of non-indicative moods in the grammatical contexts involving uncertainty. We find that...
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This paper explores the relationship between linguistic variation and individual attitudes toward risk and uncertainty. We propose an innovative marker that classifies languages according to the number of non-indicative moods in the grammatical contexts involving uncertainty. We find that...
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outcomes. Our evidence is based on an experiment in which subjects repeatedly invest in two identical, uncorrelated, risky …
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The empirical finding that entrepreneurs tend to invest a large share of their wealth in their own firms despite comparably low returns and high risk has become known as the private equity premium puzzle. This paper provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that lower risk aversion of...
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language may influence risk perception and investment behavior, no study has explored the causal effects of linguistic … uncertainty on financial decision-makers. We address this research gap by presenting a controlled laboratory experiment exposing … investors to earnings call excerpts with randomized levels of uncertainty. The subjects were engaged in an investment game and …
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. For this we use an experimental setting with repeated investment decisions over multiple trading days, and we also test a …
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paper, we deploy an artefactual field experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and - financial …
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