This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in … Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity … firms earn lower profits. Overall, the results suggest that being aware and dealing cautiously with risk leads to higher …

risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …

individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm … familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, women are more risk averse than men, risk aversion decreases with increasing …

individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm … familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, women are more risk averse than men, risk aversion decreases with increasing …

individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm … familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, women are more risk averse than men, risk aversion decreases with increasing …

individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm … familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, women are more risk averse than men, risk aversion decreases with increasing …