Risk Preferences Around the World

Marc Oliver Rieger, Mei Wang and Thorsten Hens

Chapter 6 in Cultural Finance:A World Map of Risk, Time and Money, 2020, pp 95-127 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: We present results from a large-scale international survey on risk preferences conducted in 53 countries. In all countries, we find, on average, an attitude of risk aversion in gains and of risk seeking in losses. The degree of risk aversion shows significant cross-country differences. Moreover, risk attitudes in our sample depend not only on economic conditions but also on cultural factors, as measured by the Hofstede dimensions individualism and uncertainty avoidance. The data may also serve as an interesting starting point for further research on cultural differences in behavioral economics. Data, as supplemental material, are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2013.1869.

Keywords: Finance; Culture; International; Time Preferences; Risk Preferences; Decision Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D9 E7 G4 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811221958_0006 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811221958_0006 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811221958_0006

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().