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No behavior sits in a vacuum, and one behavior can greatly affect what happens next. We propose a conceptual frame within which a broad range of behavioral spillovers can be accounted for when applying behavioral science to policy challenges. We consider behaviors which take place sequentially...
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We look at the links between the Digit Ratio - the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger – for both right and left hands, and giving in a Dictator Game. Unlike previous studies with exclusively Caucasian subjects, we recruited a large, ethnically diverse...
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We conduct a controlled lab-field experiment to directly test the short-run spillover effects of one-off financial …
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undiversifiable labor income risk. Optimal portfolios are internationally diversified while positive correlation between domestic … with a small amount of buffer stock saving, while exchange rate risk makes foreign investments less appealing to risk …
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labor income risk and stock-market participation costs. In contrast to the initial motivation, we find that the model is not …
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simultaneously matching stock market participation and individual asset holdings. The high risk premium is driven by incomplete risk … negligible impact on the risk premium, contrary to the results of models where it is imposed exogenously. …
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We show that a life-cycle model with realistically calibrated uninsurable labor income risk and moderate risk aversion … risk aversion. Households with low risk aversion smooth earnings shocks with a small buffer stock of assets and … consequently most of them (optimally) never invest in equities. Therefore, the marginal stockholders are (endogenously) more risk …
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Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …
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financial futures exchanges (1998-200). The term ‘strategic risk positioning’ is used as a central organizing concept to draw … together an analysis of the subjective time-risk relationships influencing strategy formation during this period. We being by … sense of an uncertain future shapes the strategic imagination and triggers processes of risk positioning. In conclusion, the …
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In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend … our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on …. We explore the notion of ‘active trust’ as a way of redesigning approaches to the management of risk. Our analysis …
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