Solomonic Separation: Risk Decisions as Productivity Indicators

Nolan Miller, Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser

NBER Working Paper No. 18634
Issued in December 2012

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We thank John Pratt for help with the proof of Lemma 1, Carmen Tanner and Michael Kosfeld for help with the survey, Mario Häfeli and Ramona Westermann for research assistance, and the editor, the referee, and participants in various seminars for helpful comments. Wagner thanks the Swiss Finance Institute, the NCCR FINRISK and the University of Zurich Research Priority Program "Finance and Financial Markets" for support. This paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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