The origin of risk aversion

Risk aversion is one of the most basic assumptions of economic behavior, but few studies have addressed the question of where risk preferences come from and why they differ from one individual to the next. Here, we propose an evolutionary explanation for the origin of risk aversion. In the context o...

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsmän: Zhang, Ruixun, Brennan, Thomas J., Lo, Andrew W.
Övriga upphovsmän: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:en_US
Publicerad: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2015
Länkar:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97424
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6908-4236
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2944-7773