transmission goes from risk tolerance via investments to profits. This is quite robust as it applies for past investments as well …Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is more risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2,100 small … businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple …

Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry …

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …