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Subjects who overestimate their performance in experimental tasks unrelated to travel are less willing to insure against failing in the task and also less inclined to buy travel insurance. This suggests intrinsic optimism influences insurance demand and diminishes adverse selection
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explore this possibility, I develop a theory that unifies models of investment choice, informal risk-sharing, and formal … financial contracts. I then test the predictions of this theory using a series of experiments with clients of a large … inefficiencies. First, borrowers free-ride on their partners, making risky investments without compensating partners for this risk …
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It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...
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explore this possibility, I develop a theory that unifies models of investment choice, informal risk sharing, and formal … financial contracts. I then test the predictions of this theory using a series of experiments with clients of a large … inefficiencies. First, borrowers free-ride on their partners, making risky investments without compensating partners for this risk …
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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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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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Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …
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This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has been exploited in theoretical analysis and...
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Online marketplaces for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, a large fraction of the workforce is affiliated with small, autonomous intermediary organizations that are widespread within these markets. This paper shows that...
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Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries - called outsourcing agencies - have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality....
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