New publication by Christian Pfeifer in Applied Economics Letters
2025-09-12
Prof. Dr. Christian Pfeifer (Institute of Economics, Leuphana University Lüneburg) has published jointly with Prof. Dr. Tim Friehe (University Marburg) a paper about “Risk tolerance and altruism: evidence on their relationship from Germany” in Applied Economics Letters (online). The authors find a significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and proxies for altruism conditional on a long covariate vector.
The full study is available under an open-access license at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504851.2025.2536709