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Risk Preferences Around the World

Management Science, 2015
We present results from a large-scale international survey on risk preferences conducted in 53 countries. In all countries, we find, on average, an attitude of risk aversion in gains and of risk seeking in losses. The degree of risk aversion shows significant cross-country differences. Moreover, risk attitudes in our sample depend not only on economic
Rieger, Marc Oliver, Wang, Mei, Hens, Thorsten   +2 more
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Risk Aversion and Consumer Preferences

Econometrica, 1977
The first part of this article integrates the concept of (relative) risk aversion with respect to income (r) with the static analysis of demand for many commodities. Alternative representations of preferences and demand functions, using duality, give rise to many alternative representations and interpretations of r, and to theorems regarding attitudes ...
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Production Risks, Risk Preference and Contract Farming: Impact on Food Security in India

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2018
This article reviews the literature on contract farming (CF) in India and assesses the impact of smallholders’ perceived production risks on the adoption of CF; the impact of CF on smallholders’ food security; and its impact on employment generation in ...
A. Mishra, Anjani Kumar, P. Joshi, Alwin D’souza   +3 more
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ESG preferences, risk and return

European Financial Management, 2020
AbstractThere are two primary factors that affect expected returns for companies with high ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings—investor preferences and risk. Although investor preferences for highly rated ESG companies can lower the cost of capital, the flip side of the coin is lower expected returns for investors.
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Competitive experience and gender difference in risk preference, trust preference and academic performance: Evidence from Gaokao in China

Journal of comparative economics (Print), 2018
This study examines whether and how competitive experience affects gender difference in the preferences for risk and trust as well as academic performance.
Yi Lu, Xinzheng Shi, Songfa Zhong
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Determining risk preferences for pain [PDF]

, 2011
The QALY concept is the commonly used approach in research to evaluate the efficiency of therapies in cost utility analysis. We investigate the risk neutrality assumption for time of the QALY concept: can time be included as a linear factor? Various studies show that this assumption does not hold empirically.
Eike B. Kroll, Judith N. Trarbach, Bodo Vogt   +2 more
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Farmers’ risk preference and the adoption of risk management strategies in Northern Ghana

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2018
The study used the hypothetical lottery-choice questions to measure risk aversion and a detailed survey collected data on input use, farm production and non-farm activities to specifically assess whether risk aversion, risk perceptions, and socioeconomic
R. Asravor
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Risk preferences, risk perceptions, and risky food

Food Policy, 2015
This paper presents the results of a study that tests the hypothesis that the effect of risk preference on choice is a function of the specific risk-preference measure utilized. In addition, this study tests the hypothesis that the effect of risk preference on choice depends upon its interaction with risk perceptions.
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Premium auctions and risk preferences

Journal of Economic Theory, 2010
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Hu, A., Offerman, T., Zou, L.
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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Separating Risk and Time Preference: Comment

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.
Bin Miao, Songfa Zhong
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