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Risk Aversion and Power-Law Distribution of Macroeconomic Disasters
Brzezinski, Michal - 2014
The coefficient of relative risk aversion (CRRA) is notoriously difficult to estimate. Recently, Barro and Jin (On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060115
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Changes in Business ESG Priorities in the Post-COVID World
Zavyalova, Elena - 2022
Over the last 60 years the ESG concept evolved from traditional CSR issues to 17 modern SDGs. Depending on the international economic situation in some periods social problems were more important, in others, more often, ecology was more on the agenda. The author proves that both transnational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406896
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When Bad News is Good News : Geopolitical Risk and the Cross-Section of Emerging Market Stock Returns
Zaremba, Adam; Cakici, Nusret; Demir, Ender - 2020
Using a news-based gauge of geopolitical risk, we study its role for asset pricing in global emerging markets. We find … that changes in risk positively predict future stock returns. The countries with the highest increase in geopolitical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352071
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Sharing of climate risks across world regions
Emmerling, Johannes - 2014
Models (IAMs), which assumes no risk sharing across region, we introduce global risk sharing via a market for state … across regions. We estimate that such risk sharing scheme of climate risks could lead to welfare gains reducing the global … for considering risk sharing in IAMs, but also for potentially welfare increasing negotiations about sharing risks of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404114
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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Wealth in people and places : understanding transnational gift obligations
Appau, Samuelson; Crockett, David - In: Journal of consumer research : JCR ; an … 49 (2023) 6, pp. 1053-1073
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Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
Furtner, Nadja C.; Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2016
Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level of others' contributions in variants of the public goods game. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568550
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The nature and predictive power of preferences : global evidence
Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2015
This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences …, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387557
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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence
Falk, Armin - 2015
This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences …, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011171
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Global evidence on economic preferences
Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2018
Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative … reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries. The data reveal substantial heterogeneity in preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899246