Bidirectional Control of Risk-Seeking Behavior by the Basolateral Amygdala. [PDF]
Cisneros-Franco JM, de Villers-Sidani E.
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Peer Effect, Risk-Pooling and Status Seeking: Which Matters to Gift Spending Escalation in Rural China? [PDF]
This paper is based on our ongoing joint work with Ravi Kanbur. Xi Chen is grateful to Ravi Kanbur for invaluable comments, guidance and encouragement.
Chen, Xi, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Risk seeking or averse, how do analyst coverage and firm visits motivate managers? [PDF]
Liu H, Guo X, Sheng D.
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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects [PDF]
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones.
Ferdinand Vieider +2 more
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Common and Distinct Neural Mechanisms Underlying Risk Seeking and Risk Aversion: Evidence From the Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Ding T, Xian P, Jin S, Liu Z, You X.
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The Role of Social Novelty in Risk Seeking and Exploratory Behavior: Implications for Addictions. [PDF]
Mitchell S, Gao J, Hallett M, Voon V.
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Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence [PDF]
Across many forms of rent seeking contests, the impact of risk aversion on equilibrium play is indeterminate. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality, but are typically ...
David Schmidt +2 more
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Higher alcohol use is associated with subsequent increased risk seeking toward gains: A longitudinal cohort study in young men. [PDF]
Hentschel A +4 more
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Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working-Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe. [PDF]
Singh A.
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Do markets encourage risk-seeking behaviour?
Excessive risk taking in markets can have devastating consequences as recent financial crises have high-lighted. In this paper we ask whether markets as an institution encourage such excessive risk taking. To establish causality, we isolate the effects of market interaction in a laboratory experiment keeping otherpossibly confounding factors constant ...
Mengel, F., Peeters, R.J.A.P.
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