investor personae in the Behavioral Finance literature, namely, the Cumulative Prospect Theory, the Markowitz and the Loss … attractive attracted under risk conditions. …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

Estimating risk preferences is tricky because controlling for confounding factors is difficult. Omitting or imperfectly … controlling for these factors can attribute too much observable behavior to risk aversion and bias estimated preferences. Agents … often modify risky decisions in response to dynamic wealth or asset thresholds, where they exist. Ignoring this dynamic risk …

investment's Value-at-Risk as a reasonable calculation of the worst threat an action appears to make possible, and its return … offer. In exploring the extension of the Value-at-Risk approach from applications to investments in financial assets to … applications to investments in real assets, the properties of Value-at-Risk as a risk measure are reviewed. Recognizing that Value-at-Risk …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental … asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to explain bubbles partially: Markets with the most risk-tolerant traders … exhibit larger bubbles than markets with the most risk averse traders. In our study risk aversion does not correlate with …