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On the Stability of Preferences: Repercussions of Entrepreneurship on Risk Attitudes
Brachert, Matthias; Hyll, Walter - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2014
limited. In this paper, we show that entry into entrepreneurship itself plays a decisive role in shaping risk preferences. We … of entrepreneurship. The findings suggest that studies assuming that risk attitudes are stable over time suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857329
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On the Stability of Preferences: Repercussions of Entrepreneurship on Risk Attitudes
Brachert, Mattias; Hyll, Walter - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
limited. In this paper, we show that entry into entrepreneurship itself plays a decisive role in shaping risk preferences. We … of entrepreneurship. The findings suggest that studies assuming that risk attitudes are stable over time suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896248
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Entry into Entrepreneurship, Endogenous Adaption of Risk Attitudes and Entrepreneurial Survival
Brachert, Matthias; Hyll, Walter; Titze, Mirko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Empirical studies use the assumption of stability in individual risk attitudes when searching for a relationship between attitude to risk and the decision to become and survive as an entrepreneur. We show that risk attitudes do not remain stable but face endogenous adaption when starting a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942875
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566671
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Risk Aversion, Entrepreneurial Risk, and Portfolio Selection
Fang, Hongyan; Nofsinger, John R. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 13 (2009) 2, pp. 25-55
Do entrepreneurs consider the risk of their business equity when making investment portfolio allocations? Many people compartmentalize different risks and consider them separately, called mental accounting. Alternatively, the risk substitution hypothesis suggests that entrepreneurs would offset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762495
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The attitude toward the risk of entrepreneurial activity: Evidence from Chile
P. Sepulveda, Jean; Bonilla, Claudio - Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo - 2010
contained in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey. Interesting results are found. First, we found that being male, having …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141131
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959844
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
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
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399735