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Misclassifications in Financial Risk Tolerance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This paper analyses the empirical risk tolerance of individuals and the role of physiological measures of risk perception. By using a test that mimics the financial decision process in a laboratory setting (N = 445), we obtained an ex-post empirical measure of individual risk tolerance. Predictive classification models allow us to evaluate the accuracy
LUCARELLI, CATERINA, Uberti, Pierpaolo, BRIGHETTI, GIANNI   +2 more
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Growth, entrepreneurship, and risk-tolerance: a risk-income paradox [PDF]

Journal of Economic Growth, 2019
Recent papers have modeled the prevalence of risk-tolerance as shaped by growth, making testable predictions about the distribution of risk-tolerance across the globe. We test these predictions using a dataset containing a survey question capturing people’s risk-tolerance for representative samples from 78 countries.
Ferdinand Vieider, Vieider Ferdinand M
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Tolerable risk guidelines

ISA Transactions, 2001
Safety instrumented systems (SIS) should be designed to reduce the amount of risk in a process to a tolerable level. Expressing the tolerable level of risk is one of the most difficult tasks facing organizations trying to comply with the standards that govern SIS use.
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Errors in Individual Risk Tolerance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper focuses on risk tolerance which clearly influences financial decision making. We explore the emotional side of a risk taking behaviour, comparing alternative measures of financial risk tolerance resulting from the consilience of various disciplines. We wonder whether we financially act as we are or as we are supposed to be.
C. Lucarelli, BRIGHETTI, GIANNI
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Tolerability of risk approach and the management of pharmaceutical risks

Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 2008
Public trust in policy makers, industry officials and opinion shapers is declining in Western societies, a trend highlighted by opinion polls, surveys and research [1–4,101], which leads to political crisis, substantial economic losses and the introduction of controversial riskregulation practices, such as the precautionary principle [5–8]. Is the post-
Frederic, Bouder, Ragnar, Löfstedt
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Sensitivity Analysis of Risk Tolerance

Decision Analysis, 2010
For a risk-averse decision maker with exponential utility facing a decision between two investments X and Y, there may exist more than one critical value of risk tolerance for which the decision is reversed from one investment to the other. Our main result establishes that if Y is preferred to X by all risk-seeking decision makers, then there is at ...
Bjørn Sandvik, Lars Thorlund-Petersen
exaly   +2 more sources

Banks’ Regulatory Risk Tolerance

SSRN Electronic Journal
In managing their capital, banks balance the risk of breaching regulatory requirements against the cost of maintaining and speedily restoring "management" buffers. Using 68 quarters of data on 17 US and 17 euro-area banks, we find systematic reductions in steady-state management buffer targets and attendant rises in regulatory risk tolerance (RRT ...
Juselius, Mikael, Marques, Aurea Ponte, Tarashev, Nikola A.   +2 more
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Assessing Risk Tolerance

2013
AbstractAssessing risk tolerance is an important part of advising clients about portfolio selections. The expected utility approach underlying portfolio advice based on financial economics assumes that a household has some level of risk aversion that determines its utility from different wealth or consumption levels.
Sherman D. Hanna, Michael A. Guillemette, Michael S. Finke   +2 more
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On the prediction of systemic risk tolerance of cryptocurrencies

Technological Forecasting and Social Change
The role of big data in finance is pivotal, especially in forecasting stock prices, mitigating risk, and assessing market anomalies. With the financial system becoming more interconnected, analytical models using large data are gaining prominence in developing risk spillover models.
Sitara Karim, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Molla Ramizur Rahman   +2 more
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Liver transplant center risk tolerance

Clinical Transplantation, 2012
AbstractRecent changes in Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) condition for participation, using benchmark volume/outcomes requirements for certification, have been implemented. Consequently, the ability of a transplant center to assess its risk tolerance is important in successful management.
Scott R, Johnson, Seth J, Karp, Michael P, Curry, Martin, Barugel, James R, Rodrigue, Didier A, Mandelbrot, Christin P, Rogers, Douglas W, Hanto   +7 more
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