Risk and time preferences of entrepreneurs: evidence from a Danish field experiment

Theory and Decision

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 341-357

  Andersen, Steffen ^a   Di Girolamo, Amalia ^b   Harrison, Glenn W ^c   Lau, Morten I ^a,d  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; RISK ANALYSIS;

DISCOUNT RATES; EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENERAL POPULATION; PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; RISK AVERSE; SMALL BUSINESS; TIME PREFERENCES;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84921068892     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-014-9446-z     Document Type: Article

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