Most textbook finance literature assumes risk to be the standard deviation of returns (volatility), which is not only … is consistent with investors’ actual perception of risk. Our method is presenting investors return distributions with … different risk characteristics for which they have to state their perceived risk and make investment decisions. Our results hint …

choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that … risk taking is not affected by the choice being observed by a matched participant. Nor do investments follow elicited norms …

Risk-assessment and risk-taking in various forms are among the most important tasks financial professionals face in … domain) on risk-taking, predominantly among students. In a series of experiments set in different contextual frameworks, we … effect in risk-taking than the general population. Interestingly, for domain-specific risk-taking in a finance context, we …

explore this possibility, I develop a theory that unifies models of investment choice, informal risk sharing, and formal … inefficiencies. First, borrowers free-ride on their partners, making risky investments without compensating partners for this risk …. Second, the addition of peer-monitoring overcompensates, leading to sharp reductions in risk-taking and profitability. Equity …

This paper deals with the competencies of risk management professionals for assessing risk. Often such risk experts …, from a management perspective it is important to know the risk assessment competencies of these professionals and to know … how these could be biased. Or research focuses on the competencies of these risk management professionals and how they …

The paper examines in the laboratory how risk-taking situations are affected by the conditions of observing other …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality, and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This likely contributes to the predictive power of the …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …