Broll, Udo; Welzel, Peter; Wong, Kit Pong - 2016
We examine risk taking when the bank's preferences exhibit smooth ambiguity aversion. Ambiguity is modeled by a second … return risk. Ambiguity preferences are modeled by the (second-order) expectation of a concave transformation of the (first … banking firm finds it less attractive to take risk in the presence than in the absence of ambiguity. This result extends to …