Under conditions of risk it makes a difference whether the discount rate is determined as an expected present or as an …

We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …

A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price … stochastic optimal control (SOC)/dynamic risk management is a much more effective approach to determine the optimal degree of … leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals …

This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk on people’s willingness to … inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical choice problems, we had participants put their own money at risk in a real … period under delayed resolution (which involved two days). Affective traits and risk attitudes were measured through a web …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …

potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … explore the design of policy. The model highlights the critical roles played by (i) the relationship between behavioural risk … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model …

allocations and discuss implications for credit risk modeling. …