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Risk Aversion or Risk Management?: How Measures of Risk Aversion Affect Firm Entry and Firm Survival [PDF]
The link between measured risk aversion and the decision to become an entrepreneur is well established, but the link between risk preferences and entrepreneurial success is not. Standard theoretical models of occupational choice under uncertainty imply a
Cho, In Soo, Orazem, Peter
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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An experimental test of loss aversion and scale compatibility [PDF]
This paper studies two important reasons why people violate procedure invariance, loss aversion and scale compatibility. The paper extends previous research on loss aversion and scale compatibility by studying loss aversion and scale compatibility ...
José Luis Pinto, Han Bleichrodt
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A Scalable and Resource‐Efficient Pipelined p‐Computer for Probabilistic Ising Machines
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.(a) Block diagram of the portfolio optimization problem: given M assets, the goal is to determine the optimal weights w that maximize the expected return (based on the mean historical assets return u), while minimizing the risk, quantified by the assets covariance matrix S.
Deborah Volpe +9 more
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Nalfurafine is Aversive at Antinociceptive Doses in Mice
Pharmacology Research & PerspectivesNalfurafine is the only clinically approved kappa opioid receptor (KOPr) agonist that can cross the blood–brain barrier and exert CNS effects. Because its clinical use is not associated with dysphoria, it is widely believed to have an atypical ...
E. J. Kuijer +6 more
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Coordination between midcingulate cortex and retrosplenial cortex in pain regulation
Frontiers in Molecular NeuroscienceIntroductionThe cingulate cortex, with its subregions ACC, MCC, and RSC, is key in pain processing. However, the detailed interactions among these regions in modulating pain sensation have remained unclear.MethodsIn this study, chemogenetic tools were ...
Yunya Qiu +11 more
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The link between career risk aversion and unemployment duration: Evidence of nonlinear and time-depending pattern [PDF]
In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey data (GSOEP). Using a direct measurement of career risk aversion, we do not find a statistically significant linear effect from risk ...
Dirk Oberschachtsiek, Britta Ullrich
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad +5 more
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Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model
, 1991 A. Tversky, D. Kahneman
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