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The prospect theory of Kahneman and Tversky (1979) and the cumulative prospect theory of Tversky and Kahneman (1992) are descriptive models for decision making that summarize several violations of the expected utility theory. This paper gives a survey of applications of prospect theory to the...
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. A standard explanation of the disposition effect refers to prospect theory and in particular to the asymmetric risk … aversion according to which investors are risk averse when faced with gains and risk-seeking when faced with losses. We show … that the investment has taken place, but not ex-ante, requiring that the investment is made in the first place. …
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We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from Kerala, India working in Qatar, we elicit the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game, and use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is...
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individuals' risk attitudes changed due to this revolution. Specifically, we investigate the impact of the revolution on risk … Budget Survey, which allows us to track the changes in the risk attitudes of the same individuals before, during and after … the revolution. Our results suggest that the impact of the revolution is short-term. Individuals become risk averse during …
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We introduce a framework for analyzing the interplay between credit risk and collateralmarket risk on loan pricing. To … collateral value are correlated. We provide several applications to portfolio credit andcollateral risk management.[...] …
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financial knowledge and are more risk-tolerant than non-owners. Distrust in banks or in conventional currencies is not found to … volatility or the risk of fraud and online theft dampen the demand for crypto-assets. …
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Why do the poor have so many economic activities? According to one theory the poor do not specialize because relying on one income source is risky. I test the theory by measuring the response of Thai rice farmers to conditional volatility in the international rice price. Households expecting a...
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An information transaction entails the purchase of information. Formally, it consists of an information structure together with a price. We develop an index of the appeal of information transactions, which is derived as a dual to the agent's preferences for information. The index of information...
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, regardless of his preferences, initial wealth or investment problem. It is also shown that no prior-independent informativeness …
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explained by an individual’s perception of the risk that is involved whenever an outcome is to be received in the future. This … risk may concern the size of the actual outcome or the endowment consumption stream to which the outcome is added. Both … experiments. We show how relative degrees of changes in risk over time can predict choices. …
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