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<Para ID="Par1">Gender differences in reward sensitivity and information processing were examined in two studies using a dynamic decision-making task. In Experiment 1, the optimal strategy involved forgoing an option that provided larger immediate rewards in favor of one yielding larger delayed rewards. In...</para>
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Decisions of investing in sovereign assets involve both risk and ambiguity. Ambiguity arises from unknown elements …
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To analyze the optimal social insurance package, we set up a two-period life-cycle model with risky human capital investment in which the government has access to labor taxation, education subsidies, and capital taxation. Social insurance is provided by redistributive labor taxation. We point...
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trading, with low risk exposure. The portfolio of risk holdings by member proprietary traders are also examined to identify … inventory holding, rebalancing, and volatility risk exposures. Findings of longer-term risk management practices by option … actively managed, while rebalancing risk exposure has a significant impact on profit for this trading group. Copyright Springer …
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We present evidence of a risk-taking channel of monetary policy for the U.S. banking system. We use confidential data …’s survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante risk taking by banks (as measured by the risk rating of the bank …
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The canonical principal-agent problem involves a risk-neutral principal who must use incentives to motivate a risk … inefficient shifting of risk to the agent. This article, however, summarizes experimental research that throws doubt on the … inefficient risk-sharing. These experimental outcomes, while anomalous from the standpoint of principal-agency theory, are quite …
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Sri Lanka’s geographic positioning has been long recognized as an opportunity that requires strategic exploitation in pursuance of the development objectives of the country. Improving connectivity between India and Sri Lanka is perceived as a main avenue for exploiting this advantage. The...
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couples who enter into the transnational commercial gestational surrogacy arrangement. Here the notion of risk is seen in the …
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The article argues that the concept of risk should be at the heart of any discussion on partnership-based approaches to … employment relations. It draws attention to two sets of organizational-related risk - distributive risks, related to material and … and socio-economic context of workplace change. Given this changing context of risk, we argue that ‘new’ partnership …
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The recent theoretical works of the authors mentioned in the title of the paper provide thorough insights into the workings of contemporary capitalism. Derivatives are the key issue involved here. They comprehend financialization as a development within, rather than a distortion of, capitalist...
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