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emailThursday, February 4, 2010
Determinants of Risk Preferences
Individuals vary to the extent that they are willing
to take risk, with women and older individuals typically being more
risk averse than men and younger individuals. This talk will focus
on the association between biological variables and risk
preferences. Dreber will discuss the role of hormones and specific
genes in explaining individual variation in financial risk taking
as well as other types of risk taking, including risk taking in the
card game contract bridge.
Anna Dreber is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for
Financial Research (SIFR) in Stockholm, Sweden, and a Fellow at
WAPPP. Her research interests lie in the intersection of
economics, biology and psychology, and focuses on biological and
cultural determinants of individual differences in risk preferences
and competitiveness.
- Location:NYE A, Taubman Building, 5th floor
- Date:Thursday, February 4, 2010
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Time:11:40 AM
