traits comes from experimental economics (risk aversion and time preference) and from psychology (sensation seeking and …

implication of the two nonlinear mean-standard deviation models to the empirical approach called "joint analysis of risk …

to the literature by incorporating the spatial setting into a risk-averse firm's location decisions in the presence of … environmental regulation uncertainty. An increase in the cost of the environmental regulation moves a risk-averse firm closer to the … output market. An augmented input or emission tax causes the risk-averse firm to locate closer to the output market …

joint effects of risk aversion and irreversibility associated with real investments. It aims at modifying the theory of … investment under uncertainty by incorporating decision makers' risk preferences and allows explicitly analyzing the impacts of … risk aversion, uncertainty and irreversibility on decisions such as investment and resource allocations. It addresses the …

related to the degree of risk aversion and the variability of returns. The econometric model shows that land benefits, land …

risk preferences, loan take-up, and insurance purchase decisions. This area-based yield insurance can help reduce people …-hand effect, and risk aversion. In the latter case, the shape of the relationship is quadratic, meaning that highly risk averse … subjects will prefer switching to the risky, uninsured loan project, while those showing a low and moderate risk aversion will …

Results of a nationally representative survey of US farmers link previously validated survey measures of risk aversion …

farmers' needs, expensive, benefiting agro-business, risk of decreased biodiversity), but does indicate that contamination of …