Data from three surveys before and after the 2022 mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde provide a natural experiment to assess perceptions and valuations of mass shootings. The degree of overestimation of mass shooting risks surged following these tragedies. The odds of believing that mass...

We consider a standard one-agent decision-making problem under risk and we address the following question: under what conditions is utility maximization equivalent to 'risk' minimization, where the measure of risk used by the decision-maker is a conservative coherent risk measure?

The impact of sentiment on asset prices varies during periods of low and high ambiguity and risk and across countries. Examining stock market returns across twenty-nine countries, we show that the predictability of sentiment is more pronounced when ambiguity is low in Australia, Canada, Czech...