DEMOGRAPHY OF RISK AVERSION

By Martin Halek, Joseph G. Eisenhauer. 2001

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Subfields: Accounting, Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Does Religion Matter to Equity Pricing? (2012, neutral): “This result reinforces prior evidence that, compared to Catholics, Protestants are associated with better investor protection, more risk aversion, and greater trust in others (e.g., Stulz and Williamson 2003; Grullon et al. 2010; Halek and Eisenhauer 2001; Arruñada 2010).”
The Relationship between Relative Risk Aversion and the Level of Education: A Survey and Implications for the Demand for Life Insurance (2015, neutral): “, 2011; Charness and Gneezy, 2012), age (Morin and Suarez, 1983; Bellante and Saba, 1986; Riley and Chow, 1992; Palsson, 1996; Bajtelsmit and Bernasek, 2001; Halek and Eisenhauer, 2001; Bellante and Green, 2004; Lin, 2009, Dohmen et al., 2011), religion (Barsky et al.”
CEO Overconfidence and International Merger and Acquisition Activity (2013, neutral): “During the years when a sample firm is not on the Fortune Global 500 list or is included during 2000–2003, when CEO information was not presented, the names of the CEOs are hand-collected.”
Tourism, risk tolerance and competences: Travel organization and tourism hazards ☆ (2013, background): “Risk tolerance tends to increase with education (Halek & Eisenhauer, 2001; Hallahan, Faff & McKenzie, 2004), and this is considered to be related to higher levels of (perceived) competence.”
Effects of culture on firm risk-taking: a cross-country and cross-industry analysis (2012, neutral): “Research has further established that national culture has an impact on the composition and leadership structure of boards of directors (Li and Harrison 2008) and also on individual decision-making at the micro level (Hilary and Hui 2009; Halek and Eisenhauer 2001; and Graham et al. 2009).”
Religiosity and Earnings Management: International Evidence from the Banking Industry (2014, positive): “…by 1 Prior research documents that religion affects, among other things, individuals’ wages (Chswick 1983), level of education (Chswick 1985; Gruber 2005), criminal behavior (Evans et al. 1995), risk aversion (Miller and Hoffman 1995; Halek and Eisenhauer 2001), and social ethics (Arruñada 2010).”
How do household portfolio shares vary with age? Unpub-lished working paper (2000, background): “This empirical fact has been discussed and documented by several researchers (see for example, Mankiw and Zeldes (1991), Poterba and Samwick (1995), Haliassos and Bertaut (1995), Vissing-Jørgensen (2002), and Bertaut and Starr-McCluer (2001)), and we present additional evidence in the next section.”