Group and individual risk preferences: A lottery-choice experiment with self-employed and salaried workers

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 470-484

  Masclet, David ^a,b   Colombier, Nathalie ^a   Denant Boemont, Laurent ^a   Lohéac, Youenn ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b CIRANO   (Canada)

^c ESC Bretagne Brest   (France)

Author keywords

Decision under risk; Group decision; Individual decision; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859754442     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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