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Cumulative lifetime stressor exposure assessed by the STRAIN predicts economic ambiguity aversion

Nature Communications, 2022
Uncertainty is inherent in most decisions humans make. Economists distinguish between two types of decision-making under non-certain conditions: those involving risk (i.e., known outcome probabilities) and those that involve ambiguity (i.e., unknown ...
Candace M. Raio, Benjamin B. Lu, Michael Grubb, Grant S. Shields, George M. Slavich, Paul Glimcher   +5 more
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sentiment matters: Financial impact of tonal characteristics of FOMC communication

Borsa Istanbul Review
This paper empirically examines the relationship between the tonal characteristics of FOMC textual communications and key financial market variables, notably the VIX index and its subcomponents: uncertainty and risk aversion.
Mehmet Fatih Sert, Ahmet Usta
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Mapping the Innovation DNA of Agribusiness Firms: A Multi‐Method Analysis of Strategic Capabilities and Performance

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is essential for competitiveness in agribusiness facing dynamic environments. This study examines how market orientation, marketing, relational, and social capabilities influence innovation performance. Using data from 751 Spanish firms and a multi‐method approach that integrates Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM), Necessary ...
Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez‐Azúa, Alvaro Dias   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Selected Behavioral Determinants of Risk and Uncertainty on the Real Estate Market

Real Estate Management and Valuation, 2014
Various market behaviors can be characterized as risky or uncertain, thus their observation is important to the real estate market system. The extensive use of behavioral factors facilitates their implementation and studies in relation to the real estate
Brzezicka Justyna, Wisniewski Radoslaw
doaj   +1 more source

Consumer Acceptance of New Sustainable Food Technologies: Upcycling Technology, Biostimulants, and Artificial Intelligence

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food systems have a significant impact on environmental sustainability, underscoring the need for innovative technologies to support more sustainable agricultural methods. However, the adoption of these technologies hinges on consumer acceptance, making the analysis of consumer perceptions essential.
Greta Castellini, Guendalina Graffigna
wiley   +1 more source

Solutions For Some Dynamic Problems With Uncertainty Aversion [PDF]

The Japanese Economic Review, 2001
In a discounted expected-utility problem, tomorrow’s utilities are aggregated across tomorrow’s states by the expectation operator. In our problems, this aggregation is accomplished by a Choquet integral of the form Jwdi», where a specifies uncertainty aversion.
Ozaki, Hiroyuki, Streufert, Peter A
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Patient Perspectives on Psychiatric Polygenic Risk Scores in Reproductive Decision‐Making and Polygenic Embryo Screening

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn, Amanda R. Merner, Page M. Trotter, Kaitlynn P. Craig, Abigail C. Martinez, Ana Lucía Battaglino, Dorit Barlevy, Daphne M. Ayton, Takahiro Soda, Eric A. Storch, Gabriel Lázaro‐Muñoz, Stacey Pereira   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic uncertainty aversion in bargaining — Experimental evidence

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023
In a series of four experiments I demonstrate the existence of significant aversion to basically non-existent strategic uncertainty in very simple bargaining games. This aversion goes far beyond ordinary risk or ambiguity aversion. Specifically, although almost nobody expects or chooses the rejection of an offered equal split in a bargaining game ...
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When does aggregation reduce uncertainty aversion? [PDF]

, 2009
We study the problem of uncertainty sharing within a household: "risk sharing," in a context of Knightian uncertainty. A household shares uncertain prospects using a social welfare function.
Chambers, Christopher P., Echenique, Federico   +1 more
core   +2 more sources