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Supply chain decision based on green investment subsidy and risk aversion. [PDF]
Considering the risk aversion characteristics of supply chain members, how to effectively design the government subsidy strategy and green supply chain strategy is a realistic and urgent issue.
Pengfei Liu, Shasha Yu, Zigan Lin
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Subjective socioeconomic status is associated with risk aversion in a community-based cohort of older adults without dementia [PDF]
Attitudes towards risk impact financial decisions that are critical in older adulthood. Socioeconomic status (SES) influences an individual’s level of risk aversion; however, the association of subjective SES (i.e., social standing relative to others ...
Gali H. Weissberger +15 more
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The present research conceptually replicates and extends the results of a study on the relation between individuals’ sex, their risk attitudes and stereotype threat (Carr & Steele, 2010).
Magdalena Adamus +2 more
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Natural disaster shock, risk aversion and corn farmers’ adoption of degradable mulch film: evidence from Zhangye, China [PDF]
Purpose – Degradable mulch film (DMF) is a potential alternate to polyethylene (PE) mulching. In this regard, the purpose of this paper is to explore the effects and paths of natural disaster shock and risk aversion influencing farmers’ DMF adoption ...
Ruishi Si +3 more
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The Betrayal Aversion Elicitation Task: An Individual Level Betrayal Aversion Measure. [PDF]
Research on betrayal aversion shows that individuals' response to risk depends not only on probabilities and payoffs, but also on whether the risk includes a betrayal of trust.
Jason Aimone +2 more
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Based on the microdata of 705 wheat farmers in the Loess Plateau, this study empirically analyzes the impact of uncertainty on farmers’ adoption of innovative seeds using a field experiment.
Hai-xia WU, Yan SONG, Le-shan YU, Yan GE
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Risk-averse classification [PDF]
We develop a new approach to solving classification problems, which is bases on the theory of coherent measures of risk and risk sharing ideas. The proposed approach aims at designing a risk-averse classifier. The new approach allows for associating distinct risk functional to each classes.
Constantine Alexander Vitt +2 more
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Amygdala–prefrontal connectivity modulates loss aversion bias in anxious individuals
Anxious individuals tend to make pessimistic judgments in decision making under uncertainty. While this phenomenon is commonly attributed to risk aversion, loss aversion is a critical but often overlooked factor. In this study, we simultaneously examined
Pengfei Xu +9 more
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Risk aversion is traditionally defined in the context of lotteries over monetary payoffs. This paper extends the notion of risk aversion to a more general setup where outcomes (consequences) may not be measurable in monetary terms and people may have fuzzy preferences over lotteries, i.e. they may choose in a probabilistic manner.
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Anomalies: Risk aversion [PDF]
Economists ubiquitously employ a simple and elegant explanation for risk aversion: It derives from the concavity of the utility-of-wealth function within the expected-utility framework. We show that this explanation is not plausible in most applications, since anything more than economically negligible risk aversion over moderate stakes requires a ...
Matthew Rabin, Richard H. Thaler
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