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Risk preference: How decision maker's goal, current value state, and choice set work together.

Psychology Review, 2020
When and why do people choose a more or a less risky option? To answer this question, we propose that it is essential to examine the dynamic interrelations among three factors-the decision maker's goal (e.g., promotion vs.
Xi Zou, Abigail A. Scholer, E. Higgins
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The Performance of Time-Preference and Risk-Preference Measures in Surveys

Management Sciences, 2020
Time preferences and risk preferences play an important role in a wide range of behavior, including financial decisions, entrepreneurship, and the proper incentivizing of agents.
Joshua Tasoff, Wenjie Zhang
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Separating Risk Preference and Time Preference

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
In the studies of decision making under risk and time, an increasingly important question is whether the utility representations should be the same for both circumstances. This study aims to test the separation between risk preference and time preference in a controlled laboratory setting, where subjects make intertemporal allocation decisions under ...
Bin Miao, Songfa Zhong
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Worst-case risk with unspecified risk preferences

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2022
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Are mindful people more risk-averse? Effects of trait and state mindfulness on risk preference in decision-making.

International Journal of Psychology, 2020
The current research investigated whether various aspects of mindfulness were differentially associated with risk preference in decision-making. In Studies 1 and 2, attention and present-focus aspects of trait mindfulness were associated with lower risk ...
Yufeng Zhang, Z. Chen, Shuang Lu, S. Ni
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Preference or ability: Exploring the relations between risk preference, personality, and cognitive abilities

, 2020
Preference or Ability: Exploring the Relations between Risk Preference, Personality, and Cognitive Abilities.
Philip Millroth, P. Juslin, A. Winman, H. Nilsson, Marcus Lindskog   +4 more
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CEO risk preference, enterprise characteristics, and goodwill value: evidence from China

Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2020
This study investigates the relationship between CEO risk preferences in companies completed mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the goodwill generated by M&A. The analysis period ranges from 2014 to 2018, which represents the recent ‘boom’ in China’s M&A
Xi Zhao, Xiaotong Niu, Jiaqi Chen
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Comment on “Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences”: Separating Risk and Time Preference

American Economic Review, 2015
Andreoni and Sprenger (2012a,b) observe that utility functions are distinct for risk and time preferences, and show that their findings are consistent with a preference for certainty. We revisit this question in an enriched experimental setting in which subjects make intertemporal decisions under different risk conditions. The observed choice behavior
Miao, Bin, Zhong, Songfa
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Risk attitude and preference

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2009
AbstractCitizens of Western countries are asked to make an increasing number of decisions that involve risk, from decisions about how much and how to save for their old age to choices among medical treatments and medical insurance plans. At the same time, uncertainty about choice outcomes has gone up as the result of ever faster social, environmental ...
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Risk Preferences and Changes in Background Risk

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
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Keenan, Donald C., Rudow, Donald C., Snow, Arthur   +2 more
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