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An article about Kihlstrom and Mirman about comparative risk aversion with many goods is critiqued. If "more risk averse" is interpreted as signifying that an individual is less willing to accept a median-preserving spread, then risk aversion cannot be compared across individuals with different...
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This article investigates the impact that prevailing investor demand for dividend payers and financial firm … profitability and low debt levels, investors' demand for dividend payers has a positive and significant impact on the probability …
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Cet article propose d'étudier la décision de distribution du dividende sous l'approche des dirigeants surconfiants en … supposer une plus grande propension des dirigeants surconfiants à la distribution du dividende. Les principaux résultats … obtenus montrent que les dirigeants des grandes sociétés cotées en France sont assez confiants lorsqu'il s'agit du dividende …
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que le dividende véhicule de l'information quant aux performances futures des entreprises canadiennes, et ce …
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Cet article analyse le montant et la forme des politiques de distribution des entreprises familiales cotées. Les évolutions récentes de la notion d'entreprise familiale amènent à s'interroger sur les effets de deux types de conflits d'agence, entre actionnaires et dirigeant (type I), et...
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que le dividende véhicule de l'information quant aux performances futures des entreprises canadiennes, et ce …
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We characterize the set of second-best optimal "menus" of student-loan contracts in a simple economy with risky labour-market outcomes, adverse selection, moral hazard and risk aversion. The model combines student loans with an elementary optimal income-tax problem. The second-best optima...
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Victor prefers safety more than Ursula if whenever Ursula prefers some constant to some uncertain act, so does Victor. This paradigm, whose Expected Utility version takes the form of Arrow & Pratt's more risk averse concept, will be studied in the Choquet Uncertainty model, letting u and μ (v...
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Monitoring is typically included in economic models of crime thanks to a probability of detection, constant across individuals. We build on recent results in psychology to argue that comparative optimism deeply affects this standard relation. To this matter, we introduce an experiment involving...
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This paper studies monotone risk aversion, the aversion to monotone, meanpreserving increase in risk (Quiggin [21]), in the Rank Dependent Expected Utility (RDEU) model. This model replaces expected utility by another functional, characterized by twofunctions, a utility function u in conjunction...
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