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Imitation or innovation to enhance the performance: an empirical investigation of 258 Chinese firms
Liu, Dawei - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 12 (2011) 4, pp. 377-395
This paper is focused on the factors which determined the adoption of innovation or imitation strategies on firm performance in seven different industries in China. Firstly, we delineate and distinguish the concepts of innovation and imitation. Secondly, using the structural equation modelling...
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Risk and Choice: A Research Saga
Gollier, Christian; Hammitt, James; Treich, Nicolas - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2013
As in any research field, risk theory has its important questions, results, and paradoxes, as well as its seminal … papers and key authors. Louis Eeckhoudt has been a key author in the field of risk theory. To celebrate his many … contributions to the literature, and provides some illustrations of the remarkable research saga in risk theory over the last 50 …
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Effects of Supplemental Revenue Programs on Crop Insurance Coverage Levels
Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J. - Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station … - 2013
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Risk and Choice: A Research Saga
Gollier, Christian; Hammitt, James; Treich, Nicolas - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013
As in any research field, risk theory has its important questions, results, and paradoxes, as well as its seminal … papers and key authors. Louis Eeckhoudt has been a key author in the field of risk theory. To celebrate his many … contributions to the literature, and provides some illustrations of the remarkable research saga in risk theory over the last 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004782
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Not-So-Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking
Nelson, Julie A. - Economics Department, University of Massachusetts-Boston - 2013
In their article "Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking," Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy (2012) review a number of experimental studies regarding investments in risky assets, and claim that these yield strong evidence that females are more risk averse than males. This study...
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Constrained firms, not subsistence activities: Evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises
Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - Banco Central de Reserva del Perú - 2013
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...
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Curvature of the Probability Weighting Function
Wu, George; Gonzalez, Richard - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 12, pp. 1676-1690
the probability of that outcome. In rank-dependent utility theories, including prospect theory, the probability weighting … Tversky and Kahneman (Tversky, Amos, Daniel Kahneman. 1992. Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of …
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Choosing Between Risky Prospects: The Characterization of Comparative Statics Results, and Location Independent Risk
Jewitt, Ian - In: Management Science 35 (1989) 1, pp. 60-70
We consider expected utility maximizers choosing from a family of risky prospects and examine how choice is influenced by the decision makers attitude to risk. If the family of risky prospects can be ordered so that as decision makers are more risk tolerant they choose a gamble higher in the...
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Heterogeneity of Preferences, Limited Commitment and Coalitions: Empirical Evidence on the Limits to Risk Sharing in Rural Pakistan
Dubois, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In this paper, we study the determinants of the value of informal risk sharing groups. In particular, we look at the effects of heterogeneity of preferences and of limited commitment constraints that restrict feasible allocations differently if individuals can deviate form risk sharing...
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Performance Pay and Risk Aversion
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in …
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