information that current underpin current models of risk pooling. A specially designed economic experiment involving 678 subjects … attempts to conduct such tests. I find that more extrinsic commitment is associated with more risk pooling, but that more … information is associated with less risk pooling.The first of these results accords with our expectations and assumptions …

Prescott (1985) economy by allowing investors’ coefficient of relative risk aversion to depend partly on their current feelings … potential loss. In an attempt to maintain their good mood, investors become less willing to bear any portfolio risk, i.e. they … become more risk averse. Extremely mild procyclical changes (a standard deviation of about one percentage point) in investors …

paper have been woven around the issues of perceived risk, perceived brand difference, association of brand name and … perceptions on brand name in reference to brand risk and brand differences have been the prime factors in making buying decision … feel high risk averse and entangle in decision making with perceived brand differences. …

of family farms and socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment …

paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper …