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Risk and Time Preferences: Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam [PDF]
, 2010 We conducted experiments in Vietnamese villages to determine the predictors of risk and time preferences. In villages with higher mean income, people are less loss-averse and more patient.
Camerer, Colin F. +2 more
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Financial behavior, confidence, risk preferences and financial literacy of university students
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2018 This study investigates determinants of financial behavior (FB) of university students at a university in South Africa. It examines whether financial behavior, confidence, time preferences, risk preferences and financial literacy perceptions of ...
Calvin Mudzingiri +2 more
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Economic Holobiont: Influence of Parasites, Microbiota and Chemosignals on Economic Behavior
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018 The article is a perspective on utilization of microorganisms and chemosignals in studying human economic behavior. Research in biological roots of economic development has already confirmed that parasitic pressure influenced the creation and development
Petr Houdek
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Stackelberg risk preference design
Mathematical Programming35 pages, 0 ...
Shutian Liu, Quanyan Zhu
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Frontiers in Behavioral EconomicsWe study whether long-term exposure to climate-change-related extreme weather events is associated with farmers' risk preferences. We combine (i) a household survey of 1,502 farmers across 14 districts in Afghanistan's Central Highlands with (ii) an ...
Asadullah Jawid +3 more
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Managers’ risk and time preferences in economic behavior: Review from the experiments
Journal of International Economics and Management, 2022 This survey reviews the recent developments in experimental studies on managers’ preferences, with a focus on issues of experimental design. We concentrate our attention on studies that measure risk and time preferences.
Kim Huong Trang, Quang Nguyen
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Incorporating stand level risk management options into forest decision support systems
Forest Systems, 2018 Aim of study: To examine methods of incorporating risk and uncertainty to stand level forest decisions. Area of study: A case study examines a small forest holding from Jönköping, Sweden.
Kyle Eyvindson +2 more
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Dimensionality of risk perception : factors affecting consumer understanding and evaluation of financial risk [PDF]
, 2009 This article describes two studies of the factors affecting consumer understanding of financial risk. The first study investigated factors affecting people's perception and comprehension of information about the risks related to retirement investments ...
Chater, Nick, Stewart, Neil, Vlaev, Ivo
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Cortisol shifts financial risk preferences [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 Significance Many influential models in economics, finance, and neurobiology assume risk preferences are a stable trait. In this study we find they are not. We examine the effects of chronic stress on financial risk taking by raising cortisol levels in volunteers over an 8-d period using individually tailored hydrocortisone regimens.
Kandasamy, N +8 more
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Why do entrepreneurs leave the market? An explanation from experimental economics in Peru
Economía, 2016 Understanding the behavior of those who start--or intend to start--a business is vital for a country of entrepreneurs such as Peru, which registered the third highest rate of active entrepreneurship worldwide in 2011, according to the Global ...
José Carlos Raunelli +2 more
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