Artikel
Evolution, heritable risk and skewness loving
Our understanding of risk preferences can be sharpened by considering their evolutionary basis. The existing literature has focused on two sources of risk: idiosyncratic risk and aggregate risk. We introduce a new source of risk, heritable risk, in which there is a positive correlation between the fitness of a newborn agent and the fitness of her parent. Heritable risk was plausibly common in our evolutionary past and it leads to a strictly higher growth rate than the other sources of risk. We show that the presence of heritable risk in the evolutionary past may explain the tendency of people to exhibit skewness loving today.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 16 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 403-424 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
- Thema
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Evolution of preferences
risk attitude
risk interdependence
long-run growth rate
fertility rate
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Heller, Yuval
Robson, Arthur John
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The Econometric Society
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New Haven, CT
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.3982/TE3949
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Heller, Yuval
- Robson, Arthur John
- The Econometric Society
Entstanden
- 2021
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