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Relative Risk Aversion: What Do We Know?

Meyer, Donald; Meyer, Jack - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 31 (2005) 3, pp. 243-262

The relative risk aversion measure that represents the risk preferences of a decision maker depends on the outcome variable that is used as the argument of the utility function, and on the way that outcome variable is defined or measured. In addition, the relationship between any two such...

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Excluded losses and the demand for insurance

Meyer, Donald; Meyer, Jack - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 41 (2010) 1, pp. 1-18

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A Diamond-Stiglitz approach to the demand for self-protection

Meyer, Donald; Meyer, Jack - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 42 (2011) 1, pp. 45-60

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Substituting one risk increase for another: A method for measuring risk aversion

Liu, Liqun; Meyer, Jack - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 6, pp. 2706-2718

This paper defines the rate of substitution of one stochastic change to a random variable for another. It then focuses on the case where one of these changes is an nth degree risk increase, and the other is an mth degree risk increase, where nm⩾1. The paper shows that the rate of substitution...

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A separation theorem for the weak s-convex orders

Denuit, Michel; Liu, Liqun; Meyer, Jack - In: Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 59 (2014) C, pp. 279-284

The present paper extends to higher degrees the well-known separation theorem decomposing a shift in the increasing convex order into a combination of a shift in the usual stochastic order followed by another shift in the convex order. An application in decision making under risk is provided to...

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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814

Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...

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Growing out of the crisis: hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-23

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Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan; Sanders, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 4, pp. 801-817

development (R&D) and generate new knowledge. This new knowledge has a positive effect on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth …. However, after some point, further strengthening of patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently …

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An absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

Qian, Haifeng; Acs, Zoltan - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 185-197

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship identifies new knowledge as a source of entrepreneurial … firms or research institutions. This paper argues that, knowledge spillover entrepreneurship depends not only on new …, recognize its value, and commercialize it by creating a firm. This absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover …

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Global entrepreneurship and institutions: an introduction

Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltan; Hart, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 437-444

This article is an introduction to the special issue from the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference …. The second is to present a summary of the papers in the context of the utility of GEM data in comparative entrepreneurship …

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