contributions. This paper presents experimental results illustrating that the effects of risk and uncertainty depend on the employed … efficiency gains, the presence of risk and uncertainty about the public good's value is not detrimental to cooperation. This … ?nding casts doubt on the hypothesis that risk and uncertainty, per se, weaken people's willingness to contribute. …

This experimental study, first, compares the individual valuations of two risk reduction mechanisms: self-insurance and … valuations when loss amounts are known. results confirm that there exists no "framing effect" due to the two risk reduction …

whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into play. I devise an experiment which sheds light on the … interrelation of risk and social preferences by measuring (1) individual risk preferences, (2) interpersonal risk preferences, and … (3) social preferences under certainty. The results reveal that a large share of subjects choose to accept more risk or …

a multi-arm bandit game with one safe and two risky alternatives. In this setting, risk taking produces a learning … network structure affect risk taking. We find that group size has an effect on risk taking that is qualitatively in line with …