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Privatization and investment : crowding-out effects vs financial diversification

Girmens, Guillaume; Guillard, Michel - 2002

In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under incomplete risk diversification. Risk neutrality and imperfect intertemporal substitutability make investment decreasing in privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with...

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Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent

Barr, Abigail; Owens, Trudy; Perera, Ashira - 2017

Using a specially designed experiment, we investigate whether and how interdependence in risk exposure i.e., risk taking by some members of a potential risk sharing group affecting not only their own but also their co-members risk exposure, affects both risk taking and ex post sharing. The...

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Experimenting with strategic experimentation : risk taking, neighborhood size and network structure

Große, Niels D. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of neighborhood size and network structure on strategic experimentation. We analyze … network structure affect risk taking. We find that group size has an effect on risk taking that is qualitatively in line with … equilibrium predictions. Introducing an asymmetry among agents in the same network with respect to neighborhood size leads to …

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Informal Risk-Sharing in an Infinite-Horizon Experiment

Charness, Gary; Genicot, Garance - 2006

This paper presents the first laboratory study of risk-sharing without commitment. Our experiment captures the main features of a simple model of voluntary insurance between two agents. In the model, two individuals interact over a potential infinite horizon and suffer random income shocks....

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Individualism-Collectivism and Risk Perception Around the World

Wu, Ziye; Zhong, Songfa - 2022

Understanding cultural differences in risk perception is critical in an increasingly uncertain world. Here we examine the relationship between the individualism-collectivism continuum and risk perception around the world using a recently available dataset from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation...

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Natural disaster and risk-sharing behavior : evidence from rural Bangladesh

Islam, Asad; Leister, C. Matthew; Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; … - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty 61 (2020) 1, pp. 67-99

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Is informal risk-sharing less effective for the poor? : Risk externalities and moral hazard in mutual insurance

Delpierre, Matthieu - In: Journal of development economics 118 (2016), pp. 282-297

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Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent

Barr, Abigail; Owens, Trudy; Perera, Ashira - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 176 (2020), pp. 445-460

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Gender & collaboration

Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; Prummer, Anja - 2018

The fraction of women in economics has grown significantly over the last forty years. In spite of this, the differences in research output between men and women are large and persistent. These output differences are related to differences in the co-authorship networks of men and women: women...

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Risk Attitudes and Resilience of Trading Networks : Evidence from Smallholders in Vietnam

Luong, Tuan Anh; Lim, Sunghun; Ngo, Trung Thanh; Nguyen … - 2023

This study explores the interplay between risk attitudes and trading network resilience of trading networks in small … limited network resilience, we uncover evidence of a positive association between risk aversion and the number of engaged … between behavioral factors and trading network resilience, underscoring the importance of considering village …

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