speculative hedging is. Analysing tax-sensitivity of the corporate hedge shows that a higher risk in the first place may reduce …Using a two-moment decision model this paper analyzes corporate hedging behavior in the presence of unified and … differential income taxation. We start with the well-known result that risk-taking may increase when income tax rates increase and …

. Given a new risk situation, whether a revision of the hedging-strategy is appropriate will depend upon the elasticity of …Based upon the foundations of mean-variance decision-making theory, we demonstrate that a change in the risk situation … of an international enterprise open currency position does not inevitably require a corresponding hedging accommodation …

We study risk taking on behalf of others in an experiment on a large random sample. The decision makers in our … experiment are facing high-powered incentives to increase the risk on behalf of others through hedged compensation contracts or … respond strongly to these incentives that result in an increased risk exposure of others. However, we find that the increase …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …

different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal … demand system, we estimate input and profit demand functions to obtain proxies for expected return and risk. Efficiency is … then measured in this risk-return space. Mean risk-return efficiency is somewhat higher than cost and considerably higher …

whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into play. I devise an experiment which sheds light on the … interrelation of risk and social preferences by measuring (1) individual risk preferences, (2) interpersonal risk preferences, and … (3) social preferences under certainty. The results reveal that a large share of subjects choose to accept more risk or …

individual perspective, but also from a societal one. Many increases in social risk involve a simultaneous increase in risk and … inequality. This paper presents an experiment which disentangles concerns for risk and inequality in a social risk context … terms of dispersion. We disentangle four types of dispersion: ex ante inequality, ex post inequality, individual risk, and …

This study examines whether people optimally respond to prize incentives for risk taking in tournaments. I exploit the … the degree of risk taking depending on the incentives implied by the prize structure they face. I find that they are more …