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Willingness to take risk : the role of risk conception and optimism

Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2018

We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of...

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On measuring uncertainty : snakes and ladders

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2016

financial institutions. The Finance literature had decided that it was impossible to have bubbles in financial markets and any … measurement in influencing economic decisions. They attempt to measure uncertainty by indexes of volatility of the stock market …

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The variability and volatility of sleep: an archetypal approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … independent of other demographics. A theory of economic incentives to minimize the dispersion of sleep predicts that higher …

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Variable pay and risk sharing between firms and workers

Sockin, Jason; Sockin, Michael - 2025

Firms differ in the extent to which they use variable pay. Using U.S. employeeemployer matched data on variable pay from Glassdoor, we document such dispersion and find workers are exposed to firm-level shocks through variable pay. Credit rating downgrades from investment to speculative grade,...

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Trading while sleepy? : circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market

Dickinson, David L.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; … - 2017

Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...

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Publication bias and editorial statement on negative findings

Blanco-Perez, Cristina; Brodeur, Abel - 2019

In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce the extent of specification searching and reminds referees to accept studies that: "have potential scientific and publication merit regardless of whether such studies' empirical...

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Earnings instability of job stayers and job changers

Leonardi, Marco (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Consumption smoothing and the structure of labor and credit markets

Bertola, Giuseppe (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Expected inflation, sunspots equilibria and persistent unemployment fluctuations

Dufourt, Frédéric; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - 2009

European unemployment rates. They also generate positive comovements in macroeconomic variables and a large relative volatility …

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Modelling volatilities and conditional correlations in futures markets with a multivariate t distribution

Pesaran, Bahram (contributor); … - 2007

than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC estimation procedure is applied to a portfolio of daily returns on …-DCC specification. The t-DCC model also passes a number of VaR diagnostic tests over an evaluation sample. The estimation results … suggest a general trend towards a lower level of return volatility, accompanied by a rising trend in conditional cross …

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