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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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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Protecting endangered aquatic species while sustaining farming communities can require water buyback programs that are both cost‐effective and responsive to the variability and unpredictability of drought conditions. Working in close partnership with The Nature Conservancy and the Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center, we co‐design parallel
Lusi Xie +5 more
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Elasticity of risk aversion and international trade [PDF]
This note analyzes export production in the presence of exchange rate uncertainty under mean-variance preferences. We present the elasticity of risk aversion, since this elasticity concept permits a distinct investigation of risk and expectation effects ...
Wing-Keung Wong, Jack E. Wahl, Udo Broll
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Time Dependent Relative Risk Aversion [PDF]
Risk management and the thorough understanding of the relations between financial markets and the standard theory of macroeconomics have always been among the topics most addressed by researchers, both financial mathematicians and economists.
Enzo Giacomini +2 more
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Are dairy cows replaced too early? Evidence from a structural model and cow‐level data
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract In past analyses of animal replacement decisions, studies have claimed that dairy farms often replace dairy cows too early to be maximizing profits. I estimate a structural model of asset replacement to determine the motives behind early replacement of dairy cows.
Jared P. Hutchins
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Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility Theory: A Calibration Theorem [PDF]
Within the expected-utility framework, the only explanation for risk aversion is that the utility function for wealth is concave: A person has lower marginal utility for additional wealth when she is wealthy than when she is poor.
Matthew Rabin
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Firearm carrying practices and motivations: A mixed methods study among adults and youth
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this participatory action, mixed methods research study was to identify motivations related to firearm carrying from a qualitative perspective, and then to use quantitative research to characterize the patterns of motivations around carrying.
Krista R. Mehari +5 more
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The Genetics of Risk Aversion: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Molins F, Sahin F, Serrano MÁ.
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Empirical evidence on risk aversion for individual romanian capital market investors [PDF]
The evolution of stock prices is influenced by the expectations of investors regarding the earning prospects associated to each listed company. One of the key elements of investment decision is the positive relationship between risk and return.
Alina DRAGHICI +3 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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