Personality and Risk Aversion
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Risk aversion; Personality; Variance; MBTI;All these keywords.
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- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
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