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Externalities, Risk Aversion and the Family Size

  • Oh, Kwan-Chi
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.143-158
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    • 1976
  • The purpose of this article is, first, to argue that the fertility cannot be reduced rapidly through widerspread diffusion of contraceptive practices which has been the main drive of the national policy in population control, because there involves the inescapable externalites in procreation, second, family sizes tend to be larger because of the financial externalities arising from government subsidies to families with children, and finally, the decreasing relative risk aversion of households with wealth may induce the poor to have large family sizes.

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A Risk-Averse Insider and Asset Pricing in Continuous Time

  • Lim, Byung Hwa
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2013
  • This paper derives an equilibrium asset price when there exist three kinds of traders in financial market: a risk-averse informed trader, noise traders, and risk neutral market makers. This paper is an extended version of Kyle's (1985, Econometrica) continuous time model by introducing insider's risk aversion. We obtain not only the equilibrium asset pricing and market depth parameter but also insider's value function and optimal insider's trading strategy explicitly. The comparative static shows that the market depth (the reciprocal of market pressure) increases with time and volatility of noise traders' trading.

A Study on the Factors Affecting Government-Support ERP Systems Adoption for SMEs (중소기업의 정부지원형 ERP시스템 도입 영향요인에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Young Eun;Park, Jong Pil;Lee, Eun-Kon
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2013
  • Government initiatives are continuously being invested to nurture supporting business environment for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), such as government-support ERP systems project for SMEs. As such, scholars need to pay attention to SMEs can successfully adopt and manage government-support ERP systems. This study, therefore, conceptually developed and tested a research model for understanding what factors influence SMEs' intention to adopt government-support ERP systems. We obtained thirty samples from SMEs, which is organizational level, and data were analyzed using the partial least square (PLS) technique. The results of data analysis found that institutional pressure and resource dependence had positive effects on the adoption of government-support ERP systems. On the other hand, risk aversion of SMEs was found to have negative effects to adopt government-support ERP systems.

An Empirical Study on the Early Exercise of Employee Stock Options (임직원 스톡옵션의 행사패턴 및 조기행사에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeon-A;Jung, Sung-Chang
    • The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.1-32
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    • 2009
  • This paper is the data analysis of exercise patterns of ESOs and primary factors that influence on their early exercise. ESOs are prematurely exercised soon after the vesting period is over and it is argued that risk aversion, profitability through exercise, firm characteristics and behavioral factors influence on such early exercise patterns. This paper examined 111 previously-exercised stock options that had been granted to 3,267 employees from year 2000 to year 2006, and analyzed the early exercise patterns and their primary factors. The result shows that stock options were exercised approximately 3.15 years after being granted, and 0.37 year after the vesting period was over. Such an early exercise pattern was found to be influenced by risk aversion, profitability and firm characteristics.

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A study on the nash equilibrium of the price of insurance

  • Min, Jae-Hyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 1992.04b
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    • pp.403-412
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    • 1992
  • This note examines a situation where a risk-neutral insurer and a risk-averse individual (prospective insured) negotiate to reach an arbitration point of the price of insurance over the terms of an insurance contract in order to maximize their respective self-interests. The situation is modeled as a Nash bargaining problem. We analyze the dependence of the price of insurance, which is determined by the Nash solution, on the parameters such as the size of insured loss, the probability of a loss, the degree of risk-aversion of the insured, and the riskiness of loss distribution.

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Identification of Prevailing Risk Attitudes in Various Risk Situations (다양한 위험상황에서의 지배적 위험태도의 파악)

  • Kang, Tae-Geon;Cho, Sung-Ku
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.437-447
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    • 1999
  • Previous researches on risk attitudes or on the typical utility functions have mostly focused on how the risk attitude of decision maker varies when changes are made in one or two lottery reference points such as consequence domain and magnitude of probability under assumed risk situations represented by simple lotteries. It is, however, very difficult to forecast dominant risk attitudes under risk situations which exhibit a complex combination of many reference points. In this study, twelve risk situations which a decision maker may confront in real decision-making situations were formulated by combining in various ways three reference points, that is, magnitude of probability, consequence domain, and magnitude of gain or loss. Then through a questionnaire dominant risk attitudes under every assumed risk situation were investigated, and the general shape of utility function implied by the experimental results were derived. Results of the present study show that none of the three reference points have dominant effect over the others due to complicated interaction between them, and given the twelve risk situations the observed risk attitude widely varies from strong risk taking to strong risk aversion.

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PORTFOLIO SELECTION WITH NONNEGATIVE WEALTH CONSTRAINTS: A DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH

  • Shin, Yong Hyun
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.145-149
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    • 2014
  • I consider the optimal consumption and portfolio selection problem with nonnegative wealth constraints using the dynamic programming approach. I use the constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility function and disutility to derive the closed-form solutions.

AN OPTIMAL CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT PROBLEM WITH LABOR INCOME AND REGIME SWITCHING

  • Shin, Yong Hyun
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.219-225
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    • 2014
  • I use the dynamic programming approach to study the optimal consumption and investment problem with regime-switching and constant labor income. I derive the optimal solutions in closed-form with constant absolute risk aversion (CARA) utility and constant disutility.