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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama +3 more
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Sometimes Resigned, Sometimes Conflicted, and Mostly Risk Averse: Primary Care Doctors in India as Street Level Bureaucrats. [PDF]
Int J Health Policy Manag, 2021 Ramani S, Gilson L, Sivakami M, Gawde N.
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Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan +4 more
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Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages [PDF]
This study examines the relationship between individual risk aversion and reservation wages using a novel set of direct measures of individual risk attitudes from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
Markus Pannenberg
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Eliciting time and risk preferences of farmers
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.Abstract We jointly elicit the time and risk preferences of farmers using a survey. Assuming risk neutrality (linear utility), we estimate a mean annual discount rate of 15.3%, which falls to 4.2% when accounting for risk preferences. Most farmer characteristics have an insignificant relationship with time and risk preferences, except that the percent ...
Gabriela Perez‐Quesada +3 more
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Optimal Auction Design with Risk Aversion and Correlated Information [PDF]
In this paper, we develop a general auction model in which buyers and seller are risk averse and private information is multidimensional and correlated, and in this setting we examine the problem of optimal auction design.
Page, F.H.
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Farmer risk preferences: Does context matter?
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.Abstract As farmers adapt to changing climate, they modify practices to manage evolving production risk. Understanding farmers' risk attitudes is critical to predicting their decisions about climate change adaptation. This research empirically estimates utility functions to measure the risk preferences of Michigan corn‐soybean farmers.
Natalie R. Loduca, Scott M. Swinton
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Raising capital in an insurance oligopoly market [PDF]
We consider an oligopoly of firms that compete on price. Firms produce a non-stochastic output, insurance coverage, which is sold before the true cost is known. They behave as if they were risk-averse for a standard reason of costly external finance. The
Julien Hardelin +1 more
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Revisiting EWMA in High‐Frequency‐Based Portfolio Optimization: A Comparative Assessment
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper compares the statistical and economic performance of state‐of‐the‐art high‐frequency (HF) based multivariate volatility models with a simpler, widely used alternative, the Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) filter. Using over two decades of 100 U.S.
Laura Capera Romero, Anne Opschoor
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Optimizing Executive Cash Bonuses: The Nonlinear Impact of Executive Cash Bonuses and Strategic Fit
Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how aligning executive cash bonuses with firm strategic orientation influences firm performance. While prior research mainly focuses on stock‐based incentives and linear effects, we address critical gaps by analyzing cash bonuses and exploring nonlinear relationships using polynomial regression and response surface analysis.
Yao‐Tien Lee +3 more
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