They want to educate people about storms, but certainly are not averse to exciting people about the weather — and keeping them watching for long periods of time.
Most mutuals are inherently risk-averse and weathered the financial storm well.
Navigating varying weather, changing tides, and moving boats requires a risk-averse and conservative attitude.
In other words, a risk-averse farmer would be more willing to buy the agricultural weather index insurance.
It is hypothesized that risk-averse individuals will have a higher probability to be covered by the weather index insurance than those risk-seeking respondents.
We agree with (Considine et al., [2002]) that non-risk averse or "expected value" decision makers are able to extract more value from (necessarily) imperfect weather forecasts than are safety oriented, worst case scenario minimizing decision makers.
Thus, it can be anticipated that more risk-averse individuals, such as female farmers, would be more likely to take up the weather index-based insurance.
Sometimes people are averse".
They blame the government; they blame the weather!" Masayoshi Son, the founder and boss of Softbank, Japan's third-biggest telecoms operator, has little patience for the risk-averse managers of the country's sluggish industrial behemoths.
Banks, however, are less averse.
