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We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...
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that theory predicts an inversion when consumers are either risk or loss averse. In those cases, an increase in price …Do the choices of consumers who search for a product's best price exhibit risk neutral, risk averse or loss averse risk … pay for continued search and the level of price uncertainty depends on her risk preferences. Independent of the current …
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We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion … may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA … their risk aversion parameter invest less in risky assets than wealthy investors with identical risk aversion uncertainty. …
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creating a link. However, the interplay of such uncertainty and risk attitudes has been neglected in the network formation …, incomplete information, and risk aversion. The model predicts that an agent's risk aversion is correlated with her network …
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Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting … if the variance of exam grades is higher and higher if the skew is higher: employers shift the cost of productivity risk … to new hires, but pay for the opportunity to catch a really good worker. Estimating the extent of risk cost sharing …
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The analysis in this paper shows that unpredictable variations in economic productivity may have a positive or negative effect on the average growth rate of output. This theoretical ambiguity result is not solely determined by the value of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (of...
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This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A theoretical framework is developed to demonstrate that: i) probability weighting and ambiguity attitude can lead individuals to erroneously undervalue profitable investments,...
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We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
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We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among …
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The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …
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