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Manipulating reliance on intuition reduces risk and ambiguity aversion

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Guiso, Luigi; Jappelli, Tullio - Center for Financial Studies - 2013

Prior research suggests that those who rely on intuition rather than effortful reasoning when making decisions are less averse to risk and ambiguity. The evidence is largely correlational, however, leaving open the question of the direction of causality. In this paper, we present experimental...

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Risk Aversion, Wealth and Background Risk

Paiella, Monica; Guiso, Luigi - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay to buy a risky security. We relate this measure to consumers' endowment and attributes and to measures of background risk and liquidity constraints. We...

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Manipulating Reliance on Intuition Reduces Risk and Ambiguity Aversion

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Guiso, Luigi; Jappelli, Tullio - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2013

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Making Sense of the Elusive Paradigm of Entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N.; Donald, Kuratko - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2015

The term “entrepreneurship” apparently means different things to different people including scholars and thought … leaders. Because entrepreneurship is multifaceted, it is studied from many different perspectives, yet, that has fostered a … disparities and even contradictions about what is and is not entrepreneurship. Some have suggested a narrower and more defined …

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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan

Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan

Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

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Universities as Research Partners in Publicly Supported Entrepreneurial Firms

Audretsch, David B.; Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2012

Partnerships between universities and industrial firms can play a key role in enhancing competitiveness because they provide a conduit for the spillover of knowledge from the academic organization where knowledge is created to the firm where it is transformed into innovative activity. We set...

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Regional Appropriation of University-Based Knowledge and Technology for Economic Development

Audretsch, David B.; Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2012

Economic development practitioners and scholars recognize the link between universities and regional economic development. It is predicated on the spillover of knowledge from universities to commercialization. The literature has focused on the supply side, which involves university research and...

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Public Policy Frameworks

Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011

thinking about the economy in general and the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in particular, not only shape how … innovation and entrepreneurial activity are valued, but also the overall policy debate concerning innovation and entrepreneurship …

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Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise

Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011

This paper focuses on valuation issues and methods that are related to a closely-held entrepreneurial enterprise. This focus is motivated by the fact that the number of small closely held business start-ups, which we refer to broadly by the term entrepreneurial enterprises, continues to grow...

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