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European Research on Management and Business EconomicsThis paper analyzes how different dimensions of financial literacy (financial knowledge, financial attitudes, and financial behavior) are associated with levels of risk aversion among owner-managers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), adopting a ...
Berta Marques, Pablo J. López-Tenorio
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An Empirical Note on the Relationship between Unemployment and Risk-Aversion [PDF]
In this paper we use a direct measure of individual risk-aversion to examine the relationship between risk-aversion and unemployment. Contrary to what the simple search model predicts, we observe that more risk-averse individuals are more likely to be ...
Luis Diaz-Serrano, Donal O'Neill
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto +5 more
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La aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas: una revisión
Lecturas de Economía, 2011 This article surveys the literature on risk aversion in medical decision making. The search covered Econlit, Jstor Science Direct and Springer Link since 1985.
Liliana Alejandra Chicaíza Becerra +2 more
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A Note on the Intensity of Downside Risk Aversion [PDF]
In this note we show that the measure of intensity of downside risk aversion proposed recently by Crainich and Eeckhoudt (2007) cannot be guaranteed to exist. We do this by means of an example in which the existence of the measure depends upon the values
Francisco J. Vazquez, Richard Watt
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Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever +2 more
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Risk Aversion in International Relations Theory [PDF]
|When international relations theorists use the concept of risk aversion, they usually cite the economics conception involving concave utility functions.
O'Neill,Barry
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales +3 more
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Managing Risk Aversion & Loss Aversion in Later Life Gender Transitions
Social SciencesRisk and loss aversion are key forms of behavioral decision-making describing how people weigh potential gains and losses. Although most of the literature on risk and loss aversion comes from the field of behavioral economics, these concepts are ...
E. Diane Stapleton, Jamie D. Agapoff
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Risk aversion heterogeneity and the investment-uncertainty relationship [PDF]
A simple dynamic general equilibrium model of savings and investment is populated by agents with Kreps-Porteus preferences. Households are heterogeneous in their risk aversion, which explains the negative relationship between aggregate investment and ...
Gianluca Femminis
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