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Drouvelis, Michalis; Jamison, Julian C. - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2012

to measuring levels of risk aversion and ambiguity aversion (over both gains and losses). The authors then elicit … sanctions-and-rewards mechanism, it is important to consider individual attitudes toward risk and uncertainty. …

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Microeconomía de la pobreza: el caso del Perú

Rivera, Iván - In: Revista Economía 35 (2012) 69, pp. 9-52

The microeconomic analysis of poverty in Peru shows the following results. First, poverty is mainly explained by the income of the poor which is not only low, but also highly unstable. Second, poverty is related to the poor’s bad decision making due to incomplete information, intertemporal...

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A study on relevance of demographic factors in investment decisions

GEETHA, N.; RAMESH, M. - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 10 (2012) 1, pp. 14-27

This study attempts to find out the significance of demographic factors of population such as gender, age, education, occupation, income, savings and family size over several elements of investment decisions like priorities based on characteristics of investments, period of investment, reach of...

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Reflection Effect Under Different Risk Attitudes

Gazda, Vladimír; Kubák, Matúš; Gróf, Marek; … - In: Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan … 58 (2011) november, pp. 375-386

„Reflection effect“ means, that people are risk averse if dealing with profits and risk seeking by challenging losses … the participant willingness to take risk in different domains of life is also considered. An econometric model for … predictions of the paired lottery game results depending on the risk characteristics identified within DOSPERT is estimated in the …

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Response mode, compatibility, and dual-processes in the evaluation of simple gambles: An eye-tracking investigation

Rubaltelli, Enrico; Dickert, Stephan; Slovic, Paul - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 4, pp. 427-440

We employed simple gambles to investigate information processing in relation to the compatibility effect. Subjects should be more likely to engage in a deliberative thinking strategy when completing a pricing task rather than a rating task. We used eye-tracking methodology to measure information...

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Ambiguity aversion in a delay analogue of the Ellsberg Paradox

Weber, Bethany J.; Tan, Wah Pheow - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 4, pp. 383-389

service preferred when it was the unambiguous option. Ambiguity aversion is not specific to risk, but can also occur in other …

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Examination of Intense Climate-Related Disasters in Asia-Pacific

Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G; Perez, Rosa T - eSocialSciences - 2012

are at the greatest risk, with the heaviest toll on low- and lower-middle-income economies. These catastrophes threaten …

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Global derivatives : a strategic risk management perspective

Andersen, Torben Juul - 2006

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Cross-border exposures and country risk : assessment and monitoring

Krayenbuehl, Thomas E. - 2001

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A mezőgazdasági vállalkozások fizetésképtelenségének megelőzése

Kotorman, Annamaria - In: GAZDÁLKODÁS: Scientific Journal on Agricultural Economics 53 (2009) 4

A mezőgazdasági vállalkozások felszámolásának kedvezőtlen káros hatásai a társadalom széles rétegeit érintik. A kutatás célja az agrárvállalkozások felszámolásához vezető okok elemzése 17 felszámolásra került mezőgazdasági gazdálkodó szervezetben, hogy a...

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