Environmental risk (ER) has become increasingly crucial in international business, and firms endeavor to integrate environmental risk management (ERM) into business strategies. Examining a sample of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and alliances conducted by US firms from 39 host...

Bounded cardinal utility theory (BCUT), built on the seminal work of Van Praag (1968), is based on three axioms. • The leaning-S-shaped utility function reflects the individual’s experiences of fulfilment of a need – deprivation (increasing marginal utility (MU)), subsistence (a point of...

We model a protest against a firm aiming to remove a product that causes negative externalities. Both the firm and consumers are uncertain about the product’s value, but consumers receive noisy signals. Price plays a key role in aggregating information. When prices are high, consumers with...

The goal of this paper is to model an agent who dislikes large choice sets because of the "cost of thinking" involved in choosing from them. We take as a primitive a preference relation over lotteries of menus and impose novel axioms that allow us to separately identify the genuine preference...

Motivated by the extensive evidence about the relevance of status quo bias both in experiments and in real markets, we study this phenomenon from a decision-theoretic prospective, focusing on the case of preferences under uncertainty. We develop an axiomatic framework that takes as a primitive...

Risk can be defined as the likelihood that you can deliver your promise. This paper has used the European put option and the European call option to construct the p-index and c-index to measure the risk levels (likelihoods) of owning or short-selling an asset when the asset provides at least �...

In the continuous-time finance literature, it is claimed that the expected rate of return of underlying asset does not affect the option pricing model. This paper has shown that with no arbitrage, i.e., under the Arbitrage (Gordan) theorem, different underlying asset price processes used in the...

There is a substantial literature examining coordination in public goods games. We conducted an experiment to explore how varying patterns of thresholds affect the willingness of subjects to contribute to a public good. We had subjects play a multi-period game where each subject was allocated an...

Amidst growing concerns over heightened natural disaster risks, this study pioneers an inquiry into the causal impacts of cyclones on the demand for private health insurance (PHI) in Australia. We amalgamate a nationally representative longitudinal dataset with historical cyclone records,...

This chapter discusses in some detail the element of luck as it pertains to team performance, focusing first on the importance of the toss and then the extent to which match results are due to ability and/or to luck. The importance of the toss is analysed employing Bayes’ Theorem which draws a...