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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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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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Introducing inventory credit into Nigerien agriculture: improving technology diffusion
Baquedano, Felix G.; Sanders, John H. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 66 (2006) 2, pp. 297-314
A critical component of agriculture in developing countries is increasing soil fertility in response to depleted soils and declining crop yields. An inventory credit program was introduced in western Niger to generate savings for farmers’ groups to facilitate the purchase of inorganic...
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Using farm consumption data to estimate the intertemporal elasticity of substitution and relative risk aversion coefficients
Abdulkadri, Abdullahi O.; Langemeier, Michael R. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 60 (2000) 1, pp. 61-70
A farm household consumption model based on the life‐cycle permanent income hypothesis (LPIH) has been specified and the Euler equations derived in this analysis. Estimation of the of the Euler equations using farm household consumption data provided estimates for the intertemporal elasticity...
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How Australian farmers deal with risk
Khuu, Amy; Juerg Weber, Ernst - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) 2, pp. 345-357
Purpose – In Australia broadacre crops can be insured against hail and fire damage and some other perils but not against losses caused by drought, flood or frost. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the private provision of crop insurance in Western Australia....
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Averting risk or embracing opportunity? Exploring the impact of ambidextrous capabilities on innovation of Chinese firms in internationalization
Zhou, Yu; Lu, Lu; Chang, Xiaoxi - In: Cross Cultural & Strategic Management 23 (2016) 4, pp. 569-589
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of ambidextrous capabilities, explorative capability and exploitative capability on product innovation performance in the context of internationalization and cross-cultural environment; and to examine the moderating effects of CEO’s...
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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...
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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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