, and political risk affect the performance and risk-taking behavior of mutual funds. Overall, the results show strongly … that legal conditions, culture, and political risk have robust differential effects on performance and risk-taking behavior … conditions, higher corruption and political risk have higher performance. Likewise, in such conditions, both of Islamic and …

to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face … basis risk associated with the index insurance, and with imperfect trust that promised payouts will be delivered. …

consumers, an upstream firm posts public bilateral contracts. When downstream firms are risk-neutral without wealth constraints …, the upstream firm offers the input to all retailers. When they are sufficiently risk averse it sells to one, thereby … eliminating externalities among downstream firms that necessitate the payment of risk premia. By similar reasoning exclusion is …

The paper analyses the transmission of liquidity shocks and risk shocks to global financial markets. Using a Global VAR … strong during the 2010-11 sovereign debt crisis, with risk shocks driving down bond yields in key advanced economies. The …

that, contrary to what they profess, macroeconomic and political risk is not inhibiting the investment behavior of …

The paper reports the result of an experimental game on asset integration and risk taking. We find evidence that … winnings in earlier rounds affect risk taking in subsequent rounds, but no evidence that real life wealth outside the … experiment affects risk taking. We find some evidence of imitation of the risk taking behavior of others that is distinct from …