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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment
Bonilla, Claudio A.; Vergara, Marcos - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 329-331
Cressy (2000) argues that the positive correlation between assets and the rate of business startups is due to DARA preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence, and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA.
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Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Holleran, William - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 366-378
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies … explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … address selection issues, we use novel data from the largest-ever randomized control experiment providing entrepreneurship …
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-25
investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. Copyright Batista and Umblijs.; licensee Springer 2014 …
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Probabilistic risk attitudes and local risk aversion: a paradox
Sadiraj, Vjollca - In: Theory and Decision 77 (2014) 4, pp. 443-454
Prominent theories of decision under risk that challenge expected utility theory model risk attitudes at least partly …
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The role of emotions on risk aversion: A Prospect Theory experiment
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Cuilty, Emilio - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 50 (2014) C, pp. 1-9
This study measures risk and loss aversion using Prospect Theory and examines the impact of emotions on these …
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A Diamond-Stiglitz approach to the demand for self-protection
Meyer, Donald; Meyer, Jack - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 42 (2011) 1, pp. 45-60
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Internal Inconsistency and Risk Aversion: Implications on Smoking Decisions/Consistencia interna y aversión al riesgo: implicaciones en la decisión de fumar
GIL-LACRUZ, ANA I.; GIL-LACRUZ, MARTA - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 29 (2011) Abril, pp. 387-387
The main contribution of this paper is an analysis of the nature of the link between internal coherence and risk aversion. Both variables play an important role in individual decisions concerning risk behaviors. We compare the levels of internal consistency and risk aversion among smokers and...
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Risk, ambiguity, and state-preference theory
Nau, Robert - In: Economic Theory 48 (2011) 2, pp. 437-467
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Economic value of weather forecasting: the role of risk aversion
Tena, Emilio Cerdá; Gómez, Sonia Quiroga - In: TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 19 (2011) 1, pp. 130-149
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Risk-averse asymptotics for reservation prices
Carassus, Laurence; Rásonyi, Miklós - In: Annals of Finance 7 (2011) 3, pp. 375-387
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