to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face … basis risk associated with the index insurance, and with imperfect trust that promised payouts will be delivered. …

their growth. Economic theory suggests uncertainty can cause firms to delay investments until uncertainty is resolved. We … that, contrary to what they profess, macroeconomic and political risk is not inhibiting the investment behavior of …

-performance relationship by manipulating her risk exposure. In a dynamic portfolio choice framework, we show that as the year-end approaches … risky asset despite its positive risk premium. Under multiple sources of risk, with both systematic and idiosyncratic risks … present, we show that optimal managerial risk shifting may not necessarily involve taking on any idiosyncratic risk. Costs of …

-performance relationship by manipulating her risk exposure. In a dynamic portfolio choice framework, we show that the ensuing convexities in … the manager's objective give rise to a finite risk-shifting range over which she gambles to finish ahead of her benchmark …. Such gambling entails either an increase or a decrease in the volatility of the manager's portfolio, depending on her risk …

hedger, guided by the traditional minimum-variance criterion, aims at reducing the risk of a non-tradable asset or a … generalized "Greeks," familiar in risk management applications, as well as retaining the intuitive features of their static …

between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler maxmin with multiple priors framework to lenders …

We analyse bidding behaviour in auctions when risk-averse buyers bid for a good whose value is risky. We show that when … risk in the valuations increases, DARA bidders will reduce their bids by more than the appropriate increase in the risk … marginal utility of income increases with risk, so buyers are reluctant to bid so highly. We also show that precautionary …

The paper reports the result of an experimental game on asset integration and risk taking. We find evidence that … winnings in earlier rounds affect risk taking in subsequent rounds, but no evidence that real life wealth outside the … experiment affects risk taking. We find some evidence of imitation of the risk taking behavior of others that is distinct from …