risk attitudes
PP: Risk Attitudes in the Construction Industry - Avoidance Does Not Work
... Despite the massive problems with the ‘opening’, BAA’s approach to construction management used on Terminal 5 that proactively embraced risk appears to have saved a fortune. The building was completed on time, on ...
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Measuring individual risk attitudes when preferences are imprecise
... Despite their possible susceptibility to rules of thumb as a way of coping with imprecise preferences, both Choi et al. and Andreoni and Sprenger make strong claims for the usefulness and greater plausibility of the ...
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Risk attitudes and informal employment in a developing economy
... between risk attitudes and labour ...which risk aversion is, on average, smallest, is at the cut-off level of ability for formal wage ...of risk aversion, movements between types of employment ...
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Do risk attitudes differ within the group of entrepreneurs?
... their risk at- ...on risk attitudes of entrepre- neurs. The notion of risk and entrepreneurship is a widely examined topic in the entrepreneurship ...of risk aversion is regarded as a ...
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Insider Trading With Different Risk Attitudes
... the risk-aversion case of the Kyle (1985) ...the risk-aversion type of the insider makes the computational analysis quite ...the risk-neutral ...multiple risk-averse in- formed trader with ...
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Does self control depletion affect risk attitudes?
... in risk attitudes, switching points in four additional “small” choice lists were elicited after subjects had made their choices in all four “large” choice ...
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Estimating risk attitudes in conventional and artefactual lab experiments
... We compiled data from two previous experiments that involved risk preference elicitations tasks. These two experiments were part of a larger project on choice under risk which also involved some standard ...
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Not worth the risk? Attitudes of adults with learning difficulties, and their informal and formal carers to the hazards of everyday life
... 20 adults with learning difficulties (adults) living at home with informal carers, mostly parents, and attending Adult Training Centres (ATCs) were interviewed about their everyday lives and information was also obtained ...
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A Cross Cultural Test of Financial Risk Tolerance Attitudes: Brazilian and American Similarities and Differences
... in risk-tolerance scores that has been noted in the literature was present in this study as ...lower risk scores than ...that risk-averse attitudes might lead to risk avoiding financial ...
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An experimental method for the elicitation of implicit attitudes to privacy risk
... Second, we propose a novel technique for the implicit elicitation of attitudes to privacy risks. This method is incentive compatible, and implies a series of deci- sions that are more intuitive for participants ...
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Educational loans and attitudes towards risk
... financial risk for above average/substantial financial returns, is positive and statistically significant for the amount of the educational loan take ...between risk attitudes and a dummy variable ...
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Capturing the way in which risk appetite is integrated within the bid/ no bid heuristics of a contractor’s business unit
... between risk appetite and heuristics, it is first important to recognize that risk appetite is intangible and cannot be measured ...way, risk appetite requires a proxy ...by risk thresholds, ...
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Risk Management and Market Participation among Traditional Cattle Farmers in Monze District of Southern Province, Zambia : A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in AgriCommerce at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
... of risk, risk management strategies, risk attitudes, cattle market participation and cattle selling channels of traditional cattle farmers in Monze district of ...
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Attitudes toward risk and ambiguity in patients with autism spectrum disorder
... setting: risk (known probabilities) and ambiguity (unknown ...under risk and ambiguity, despite growing evidence of their altered decision-making under ...the attitudes of those with ASD toward ...
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The identification of attitudes towards ambiguity and risk from asset demand
... increase in experimental tests that focus on this and related questions. Even though the vast majority of studies of attitudes towards risk have considered lottery experiments, an alternative empirical ...
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The Community Rating System: Assessing Indicators of Community Participation, A Dasymetric and Sovi Approach
... environmental risk factors throughout their lives stemming from problems associated with poverty, family adversity, inadequate parental monitoring, and/or physical and emotional trauma (Guerin & Denti, 1999; ...
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Interest in genomic SNP testing for prostate cancer risk: a pilot survey
... that were significantly associated in the univariate ana- lyses. In this model, study group remained a statistically significant predictor: URO men vs PRAP men, adjusted OR = 0.18 (95%CI 0.06-0.61) (Table 5). To avoid ...
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Assessment of Determinants of Miscarriage in Primigravida visiting Gynaecology outpatient Department DHQ Hospital, Dera Ghazi Khan.
... and attitudes regarding the risk factors that adversely affect pregnancy outcomes and miscarriages in DHQ Dera Ghazi ...the risk factors that could adversely affect the pregnancy outcomes, however, ...
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Patients' attitudes to risk in lung cancer surgery: a qualitative study
... mortality risk when given hypothetical scenarios, this was in the context of a preference for clinicians to make the treatment decision for them, as well as a perception that there was no ...higher risk ...
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Patients' attitudes to risk in lung cancer surgery: A qualitative study.
... specific risk estimates and possible complications but despite this, many seemed not to want to know this information and in many cases decisions about surgery seemed to be separate from their understanding of ...
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