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The current study examines how the financial crunch of 2008–2009 impacted individuals' willingness to take risks (WTR). We detect substantial changes in the WTR associated with the financial crunch which supports countercyclical chance disfavor while decision-making for wealth effects and hazard perception. Yet, nosotros likewise observe a quick recovery of the WTR immediately after the crisis. We find that managers are less risk averse in general, but participated less in the pre-crisis upswing in the WTR. Post-crisis, the managerial WTR took a deeper hitting compared to the overall population. Changes in risk tolerance levels too differ across income levels, which we aspect to greater exposure to the stock market depreciation during the crisis.

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  1. The aspiration level is chosen the reference signal in some articles.

  2. Countercyclical take a chance aversion implies that individuals become more risk averse when economic weather worsen and vice versa. Note that our empirical information practise include hazard tolerance levels and non risk aversion. Therefore, the concept of countercyclical risk aversion implies cyclical gamble tolerance levels in our dataset.

  3. Berry-Stölzle et al. (2014), however, do non notice evidence that insurance companies had issues obtaining financing during the 2008 global financial crisis, though.

  4. Encounter Wagner et al. (2008) for more information on the SOEP.

  5. Naturally, households may consist of more than than 1 individual.

  6. Risk preferences were not surveyed earlier 2004 and in 2005 and 2007.

  7. Germany was not equally negatively affected every bit the U.S. or U.Grand. during the economic crisis because Germany did not accept a real estate bubble that flare-up. Yet, in that location were considerable economic consequences due to the global downturn. The High german GDP dropped by v% from 2008 to 2009, come across https://www.destatis.de/DE/PresseService/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2010/01/PD10_012_811.html.

  8. There are several methods to elicit risk attitudes in the lab [see, for instance, Donkers et al. (2001), Hartog et al. (2002)], and Holt and Laury (2002). Other studies using observed risky decisions make inference on run a risk attitudes, run into e.thou., Chetty (2006), Bar-Shira et al. (1997), Antle (1989), Cicchetti and Dubin (1994), and Cohen and Einav (2007).

  9. Run into Barsky et al. (1997), Donkers et al. (2001), Halek and Eisenhauer (2001) Hartog et al. (2002), Kimball et al. (2008), and Dohmen et al. (2011).

  11. According to the 'Statistische Bundesamt,' a governmental institution that researches on demographics in Frg, households can be referred to as being rich or every bit being a high-income household if they have a monthly after-tax income of 6000 Euros or higher.

  12. The German Regime pays child allowances to a chief caregiver who is financially responsible for each child they are providing care for. Monthly allowances are 184 Euros for the first two children and up to 215 Euros for further children. We prefer using this measure over the actual number of children living in the household as it better reflects the fiscal responsibleness for the children.

  13. The master difference between the lowest and the medium school degree in Frg is related to the fact that well-nigh white-collar positions crave a medium school caste, whereas certain blue-neckband workers only need to accept the everyman school caste.

  14. In corporation with the state governments, German companies have extensive trainee programs where school graduates enroll in a ii to 3-year trainee plan. Several weeks of teaching in a public specialized school are followed by several weeks of training on the job.

  15. The reported variation inflation factors are 60.35 for the variable age and 14.33 for male.

  16. Amassed standard errors account for possible correlations inside a cluster and asymptotically equal unclustered standard errors. Since we cannot exclude that amassed standard errors are non necessary, we include them to err on the side of caution.

  17. The Hausman test gives justification for using a fixed furnishings approach.

  18. The assumption of decreasing absolute gamble aversion could also imply that lower wealth during the GFC implies a lower WTR.

  19. Notation that results of the other robustness tests are consistent and statistically significant as well. Nosotros omit the tables in the involvement of readability of the paper. They are available upon asking from the authors straight.

  20. Overall, the correlation between the WTR and worries of the economy is small (approximately 0.05) and the coefficient estimates are very robust compared to the models where nosotros do non include worries nearly the economy. This alleviates concerns about biased estimates because of reverse causality.

  21. Unfortunately, we cannot identify the managers' employer. Consequently, we do not know if the company failed during the fiscal crisis.

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  1. School of Adventure Management, Insurance and Actuarial Scientific discipline, St. John's Academy, New York, USA

    Marker Browne

  2. Munich School of Management, Munich Risk and Insurance Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

    Verena Jaeger

  3. Hamburg Concern School, Establish for Gamble Management and Insurance, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Petra Steinorth

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Browne, M., Jaeger, V. & Steinorth, P. The touch on of economic conditions on individual and managerial run a risk taking. Geneva Risk Insur Rev 44, 27–53 (2019). https://doi.org/ten.1057/s10713-018-00037-1

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Keywords

  • Risk preferences
  • Countercyclical adventure aversion
  • Managerial decision making
  • Financial crunch

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