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Assessment of Factors Influencing Tendency of Auditors to Use Achievments of Information Technology: The Independent Auditors' perspective [PDF]

open access: yesمجله دانش حسابداری, 2014
This research investigates the factors influencing auditors’ tendency for the use of information technology achievements, regarding independent auditors' view point in the group of auditor members of the Iranian association of certified public ...
Gholam Hossian Mahdavi, Zohreh Karimi
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Preferences, Time Preferences, and Smoking Behavior

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, 2018
There is a rich theoretical literature in economics which models habit‐forming behaviors, of which addiction is the exemplar, but there is a paucity of experimental economic studies eliciting and comparing the preferences that economic theory suggests may differ between addicts and nonaddicts.
Harrison, Glenn W.   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene (DRD4) and Financial Risk-Taking: Stimulating and Instrumental Risk-Taking Propensity and Motivation to Engage in Investment Activity

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018
The Dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) has been previously linked to financial risk-taking propensity. Past works demonstrated that individuals with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene (7R+) are more risk-seeking than people without it (7R−).
Rafał Muda   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A marker of biological ageing predicts adult risk preference in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Why are some individuals more prone to gamble than others? Animals often show preferences between 2 foraging options with the same mean reward but different degrees of variability in the reward, and such risk preferences vary between individuals ...
Andrews, Clare   +5 more
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Risk preferences under acute stress [PDF]

open access: yesExperimental Economics, 2017
AbstractMany important decisions are made under stress and they often involve risky alternatives. There has been ample evidence that stress influences decision making, but still very little is known about whether individual attitudes to risk change with exposure to acute stress.
Lubomir Cingl, Jana Cahlikova
openaire   +4 more sources

Indecisiveness on risk preference and time preference choices. Does financial literacy matter?

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between financial literacy and decisiveness in making risk preference and time preference choices by university students.
Calvin Mudzingiri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pro-Rata Warranty pricing model with risk-averse manufacturers Mahdi Nasrollahi [PDF]

open access: yesMuṭāli̒āt-i Mudīriyyat-i Ṣan̒atī, 2017
Due to fierce competition and customer demand, manufacturers have started selling products with different warranty policies and pro-rata warranty is one of the most widely used warranty policy.
Mahdi Nasrollahi
doaj   +1 more source

Non-Farm Employment Experience, Risk Preferences, and Low-Carbon Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from 1843 Grain Farmers in 14 Provinces in China

open access: yesAgriculture, 2022
Guiding and encouraging farmers to adopt low-carbon agricultural technologies is highly significant for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, mitigating climate change, and achieving agricultural production development and food security.
Chaozhu Li, Xiaoliang Li, Wei Jia
doaj   +1 more source

Does SME’s financing decisions follow pecking order pattern? The role of financial literacy, risk preference, and home bias in SME financing decisions

open access: yesCogent Business & Management, 2023
This paper aims to explore the role of financial literacy, risk preference, and home bias in Minangkabau ethnic SME financing decisions, and whether their financing pattern follow the pecking order theory. The theoretical framework model was developed to
Henny Sulistianingsih, Fitri Santi
doaj   +1 more source

Common genetic effects on risk-taking preferences and choices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Although prior research has shown that risk-taking preferences and choices are correlated across many domains, there is a dearth of research investigating whether these correlations are primarily the result of genetic or environmental factors. We examine
Nicolaou, Nicos, Shane, S.
core   +1 more source

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