risk-seeking

My wife suggests sort of a unification of the risk/critical theory, which is to view doubting religion as a risk-seeking behavior.

A Kuranian Take on the Religious Gender Gap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

He and a few risk-seeking partners convinced the Federal Housing Administration that it would be a grand idea to build several tracts of government-subsidized low-income housing way the hell out past nowhere, in a godforsaken swath of desert poetically named Hesperia.

The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

By the way, higher interest rates (might) cause higher income people to put more risk-seeking money into corporate bonds as opposed to corporate equity.

Matthew Yglesias » National Savings 2010

Since they face competition from the smaller/less-leveraged firms, the incidence of the tax is actually going to be on the risk-seeking capital that sought out the largest and most leveraged firms.

Matthew Yglesias » The Smallness of Obama’s Bank Tax 2010

The better approach if you are concerned about public policy is to note that the way they have defined their terms makes their theory very difficult to refute, but also of very limited value when making public policy – except in fact to the extent their theory helps confirm that we should be very skeptical about whether risk-seeking capital is going to behave in socially optimal ways in the absence of regulation.

Matthew Yglesias » 20/20 Vision is Accurate 2010

Personally, I think it is a good idea to keep this a clean policy, meaning adopting the two-tier structure just for the purpose of putting most of the incidence on risk-seeking capital and keeping loss rates to administrative costs low.

Matthew Yglesias » Administration Outlines New Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee 2010

If you are looking at what would actually be detrimental to the interests of risk-seeking capital, reinstituting Glass-Steagall is relatively small in scale as compared to stricter leverage limits and capital requirements plus robust resolution authority.

Matthew Yglesias » Presidents Shape Their Circumstances 2010

So while cautious investors took profits and exited from positions Monday, other risk-seeking traders entered the market Tuesday.

After Ratings Panic, Traders Embrace Risk, Euro Andrew J. Johnson 2011

History tells us that risk-seeking capital can move around very quickly, and a large number of firms can just make it harder for regulators to act in a timely fashion (see, e.g., the Savings and Loan Crisis).

Matthew Yglesias » Regulating Leverage is More Important than Regulating Bubbles 2010

The better approach if you are concerned about public policy is to note that the way they have defined their terms makes their theory very difficult to refute, but also of very limited value when making public policy – except in fact to the extent their theory helps confirm that we should be very skeptical about whether risk-seeking capital is going to behave in socially optimal ways in the absence of regulation.

Matthew Yglesias » 20/20 Vision is Accurate 2010