A variety of risk assessment questionnaires are used within the financial planning profession to assess client risk … evaluated risk assessment questions on how well they correlate with monetary loss aversion. Twenty-nine Western Texas residents … between the ages of 27 and 56 participated in experimental research and filled out several risk assessment questionnaires. Two …

This paper investigates how the combination of preferences and biases impact the risk-value profile of acquiring firms …. We find strong evidence that prior losses impact acquisition risk as firms with negative prior returns are more prone to … corporate risk choices that conform to the aspiration-based March-Shapira model, modulated by psychological biases such as …

Using lab experiments this paper examines how the risk and return characteristics of a venture along with an … through debt and equity. We find that ventures financed through equity have significantly higher risk and higher expected … returns as compared to debt financed ventures. We argue that the higher risk taking behaviour may be explained by the risk …

of agricultural risk, we provide an exposition of expected utility theory and of the notion of risk aversion. This is …Uncertainty and risk are quintessential features of agricultural production. After a brief overview of the main sources … followed by a basic analysis of agricultural production decisions under risk, including some comparative statics results from …