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Gender, trust and risk-taking: a literature review and proposed research model
Zeffane, Rachid - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 9 (2015) 3, pp. 221-232
Purpose – This paper aims to review and discuss recent literature on gender, trust, risk-taking and entrepreneurship … proposed. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a review of the literature on gender, trust, risk-taking and …. Findings – In recent years, the issue of gender and its effect on entrepreneurship has been the subject of much debate and …
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Der Ingenieurberuf: Von der traditionellen Monokultur zu aktuellen gender- und diversityrelevanten Perspektiven und Anforderungen / The engineering profession: From traditional mon...
Ihsen, Susanne - In: Arbeit 22 (2013) 3, pp. 236-248
Abstract Der Ingenieurberuf in Deutschland hat sich bis heute eine stark monokulturell geprägte Fachkultur erhalten. Insbesondere Frauen gelingt nur langsam eine erfolgreiche und nachhaltige Integration. Vielfältige Programme sind daran beteiligt, dies zu ändern. Ihr Erfolg bleibt davon...
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A Simple Metric for Gauging Risk Aversion
Eisenhauer, Joseph G. - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 4 (2010) 2
The underlying rationale for insurance purchases and other forms of risk management is aversion to risk, yet the measurement of risk aversion has been inappropriately focused on risks of little or no consequence. The present paper demonstrates that a quantitative measure of large-scale risk...
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On the Effect of Risk Aversion in Two-Person, Two-State Finance Economies
Berden, Caroline; Peters, Hans - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 7 (2008) 1
The effect of replacing an agent in a two-person two-state finance economy by a more risk averse agent is studied. It is established under which conditions the other agent benefits or looses in equilibrium from dealing with a more risk averse agent. If one agent becomes more risk averse, then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014589146
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Capital Budgeting with Taxes under Uncertainty and Irreversibility / Investitionsplanung mit Steuern bei Unsicherheit und Irreversibilität
Niemann, Rainer; Sureth, Caren - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 1, pp. 77-95
Summary This article investigates the derivation of post-tax investment rules and neutral tax systems under risk neutrality and risk aversion for irreversible investment projects. Integrating taxes into real option theory, it can be shown that the possible approaches dynamic programming and...
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Risk Aversion and Social Networks
Kovářík, Jaromír; van der Leij, Marco J. - In: Review of Network Economics 13 (2014) 2, pp. 121-155
Abstract This paper first investigates empirically the relationship between risk aversion and social network structure in a large group of undergraduate students. We find that risk aversion is strongly correlated to local network clustering, that is, the probability that one has a social tie to...
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Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats
Thomas, Tobias; Heß, Moritz; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Review of Economics 68 (2017) 3, pp. 167-179
Abstract From a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms. In this contribution we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on three surveys among the...
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Risk measurement with equivalent utility principles
Denuit, Michel; Dhaene, Jan; Goovaerts, Marc; Kaas, Rob; … - In: Statistics & Risk Modeling 24 (2006) 1, pp. 1-25
SUMMARY Risk measures have been studied for several decades in the actuarial literature, where they appeared under the guise of premium calculation principles. Risk measures and properties that risk measures should satisfy have recently received considerable attention in the financial...
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Risk aversion in the family business: the dark side of caution
R.W. Hiebl, Martin - In: Journal of Business Strategy 35 (2014) 5, pp. 38-42
Purpose – This paper aims to shed light on the potential downsides of risk aversion in family firms. Moreover, it seeks to provide measures on how to balance risk taking and risk aversion in family businesses. Design/methodology/approach – The article first presents four “dark sides” of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014847244
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Assessing quality perception of private labels: intransient cues and consumer characteristics
Bao, Yongchuan; Sheng, Shibin; Bao, Yeqing; Stewart, David - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 28 (2011) 6, pp. 448-458
Purpose – This study aims to examine the moderating effects of two important consumer characteristics (product familiarity and risk aversion) on the relationships between two intransient cues (store image and product signatureness) and consumer quality perception of private label, as well as...
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