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Scoring and Predicting Risk Preferences
, 2012 This study presents a methodology to determine risk scores of individuals, for a given financial risk preference survey. To this end, we use a regression-based iterative algorithm to determine the weights for survey questions in the scoring process.
Ertek, Gürdal +4 more
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Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2019 The exposure of farmers to different (and increasing) risks has been recognized by the EU policy, which supports several risk management tools through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Attilio Coletta +4 more
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Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences [PDF]
Many households devote a large fraction of their budgets to "consumption commitments" -- goods that involve transaction costs and are infrequently adjusted. This paper characterizes risk preferences in an expected utility model with commitments.
Adam Szeidl, Raj Chetty
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Risk preferences and development revisited [PDF]
, 2019 A
Martinsson, Peter +3 more
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Social preferences under risk: an experimental analysis [PDF]
The literature on social preferences provides overwhelming evidence of departures from pure self-interest of individuals. Experiments show that people care about others' well-being and their relative standing. This paper investigates whether this type of
Bradler, Christiane
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Energies, 2018 As useful supplements and effective support for large-scale electric power networks, micro-grid systems are the development tendency of future electric power systems. The planning performance of a micro-grid not only affects its security, reliability and
Haoran Zhao, Sen Guo, Huiru Zhao
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Optimal choice and beliefs with ex ante savoring and ex post disappointment [PDF]
, 2006 We propose a new decision criterion under risk in which people extract both utility from anticipatory feelings ex ante and disutility from disappointment ex post. The decision maker chooses his degree of optimism, given that more optimism raises both the
Gollier, Christian, Muermann, Alexander
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Positive Arousal Increases Individuals’ Preferences for Risk
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Much is known about the effect of negative arousal on decision making, but little is known about the effect of positive arousal. In this study, we manipulated positive arousal and measured individual choices under risk using an incentivized task ...
Andrea Galentino +3 more
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Can subjective mortality expectations and stated preferences explain varying consumption and saving behaviors among the elderly? [PDF]
This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the consumption and saving behavior of the elderly.
Martin Salm
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An Investigation of Production Risk, Risk Preferences and Technical Efficiency: Evidence From Rainfed Lowland Rice Farms in the Philippines [PDF]
Risk plays a vital role in farmers' decisions on input allocations and, therefore, output supply. This paper provides empirical evidence on the estimation of production risk, risk preferences and technical inefficiency.
Battese, George E. +2 more
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