Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bodeutsch, D.S.
Author-Name-Last: Bodeutsch
Author-Name-First: Denice
Author-Name: Franses, Ph.H.B.F.
Author-Name-Last: Franses
Author-Name-First: Philip Hans
Author-Person: pfr226
Title: Risk attitudes in company boardrooms in a developing country
Abstract: __Abstract__
 
 We test risk attitude and risk propensity of executive and non-executive directors of almost all (read: 10) companies listed at the Suriname Stock Exchange. This stock exchange associates with an emerging market, which currently seems to be at its initial stage. With a personalized survey we collect data for 13 members in the board room. The sample size is small as the population is small, but still we can test various hypotheses that are put forward in the literature. Our main finding is that the differences between risk attitudes of board members of companies in a  developing country do not differ tremendously from those of board members in developed countries.
Length: 25
Creation-Date: 2015-01-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/78066/EI2015-04.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureir
Number: EI 2015-04
Classification-JEL: G11, G32, O16
Keywords: Risk, Risk attitude, Top executives, Developing country
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureir:78066