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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balancedskill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impactsboth of risk aversion and balanced skills on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255496
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399735
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Banking and Trading
Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Ratnovski, Lev - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
We study the effects of a bank’s engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions-based: scalable, short-term, capital constrained, and with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256147
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Pensions, Debt and Inflation Risk in a Monetary Union
Adema, Yvonne - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper investigates the international spillovers of government debt and the associated risk of inflation within a … can shift part of its long-term debt burden to the funded country. Moreover, the PAYG country gains from unexpected … with the level of debt in the PAYG country. Higher inflation risk harms both countries. Actually, in contrast to the debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838553
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Pensions, Debt and Inflation Risk in a Monetary Union
Adema, Yvonne - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper investigates the international spillovers of government debt and the associated risk of inflation within a … can shift part of its long-term debt burden to the funded country. Moreover, the PAYG country gains from unexpected … with the level of debt in the PAYG country. Higher inflation risk harms both countries. Actually, in contrast to the debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257504
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Inverse Adverse Selection: The Market for Gems
Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe; Onderstal, Sander; Parisi, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper studies markets plagued with asymmetric information on the quality of traded goods. In Akerlof's setting, sellers are better informed than buyers. In contrast, we examine cases where buyers are better informed than sellers. This creates an inverse adverse selection problem: The market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256127
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The Welfare Effects of Discrimination in Insurance
Noll, Rob van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
We study an insurance model characterized by a continuum of risk types, private information and a competitive supply side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate that a test is available that determines whether an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137362
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Inverse Adverse Selection: The Market for Gems
Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe; Onderstal, Sander; Parisi, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
This paper studies markets plagued with asymmetric information on the quality of traded goods. In Akerlof's setting, sellers are better informed than buyers. In contrast, we examine cases where buyers are better informed than sellers. This creates an inverse adverse selection problem: The market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838639
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The Welfare Effects of Discrimination in Insurance
Noll, Rob van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
We study an insurance model characterized by a continuum of risk types, private information and a competitive supply side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate that a test is available that determines whether an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256965
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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Management Science</I>. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528.<P> This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272579