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is increasing in the tax rate as soon as a suitable relative risk aversion measure is larger with auditing, than without …
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The explanation of social inequalities in education is still a debated issue in economics. Recent empirical studies tend to downplay the potential role of credit constraint. This article tests a different potential explanation of social inequalities in education, specifically that social...
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We investigate the relation between welfare and preference satisfaction in economics, and show that the extension of the scope of economic analysis through the 20th century forces economists to question the validity of the preference satisfaction criterion as a normative criterion for evaluating...
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In an often quoted article, Genesove and Mayer (2001) observe that house sellers are reluctant to sell at a loss, and attribute this finding to loss aversion. I show that loss aversion cannot explain this phenomenon.
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I show that a loss averse consumer who must share her budget between two goods prefer allocations for which consumption equals reference point for at least one good. The phenomenon intensity depends on the curvature of the utility curve. These results are consistent with several stylized facts...
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This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …
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non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …
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Using a recent household survey conducted in Senegal, I examine the impact of negative and positive income shocks on departures from and entries in the household. I focus on differences in responses to shocks across the urban and rural sectors as well as age and gender groups. Striking...
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-agricultural sector is considered as a risk-mitigating strategy by rural Pakistani households. This issue has already been addressed but … whether ex ante engagement in the non-agricultural sector is partly motivated by a desire to mitigate risk. The main feature …
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We define a coherent risk measures as set-valued maps satisfying some axioms. We show that this definition is a … convenient extension of the real-valued risk measures introduced by Artzner, Delbaen, Eber and Heath (1998). We then discuss the … aggregation issue, i.e. the passage from valued random portofolio to valued measure of Risk. Necessary and sufficient conditions …
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