This experimental study investigates insurance decisions in low-probability, high-loss risk situations. Results … individuals are risk averse with no specific threshold probability. …

A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

-play decision making under ambiguity. The current experiment involves an ambiguity treatment in which (1) the participants perform …

Using a laboratory experiment we investigate how skew in uences choices under risk. We find that subjects make …

. This holds under ambiguity, but not in a comparison treatment under risk. …

attention has been devoted to understand how risk and uncertainty influence drivers’ behaviours in parking decision. This paper … risk and uncertainty. …

listed shares. Our analysis concerns the risk which arises from the Markowitz mean-variance approach. Our work method will be … implemented as following: first of all, we will test the normality and the stationarity of 31 shares which have composed our … methods of measurement of return, risk and the other statistical properties constitute, in fact, the pillars of companies …