Abstract
The goal of the paper was to establish the relation between risk attitude and information acquisition, the relation between experience and risk attitude, and the relation between experience and information acquisition. A theoretical framework and an empirical investigation are presented. Experienced credit managers (N=165) in Swedish supplying companies participated in a nationwide survey. No relation between risk attitude and information acquisition could be established, but there was a tendency among experienced credit managers to be risk takers. Differences in information acquisition regarding experience were also reported. A regression model accounting for 10.0 per cent of the variance in the information variable was estimated. The independent variables were experience, risk attitude, and gender. Besides the contributions to risk research, the findings also have relevance to financial decision making, management, and expert judgment.