of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to …-earthquake control) on the effect of natural disasters on time and risk preferences. We find unambiguous effects towards more risk …

We study how background health risk affects financial risk-taking. We elicit financial risk-taking behavior of a … infections across time and space, we find that an increase in infections affecting background health risk translates into higher … financial risk-taking, and for the alleviating effect of self-insurance devices …

choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against … the risk of default outweighs the cost advantages of debt financing. In the optimum, banks with lower monitoring costs are … to make higher-risk portfolios more attractive. Accounting for banks’ interior capital choices can thus explain why …

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …

Two non-transitive theories to model decision making under risk are regret theory (Loomes and Sugden, 1982, 1987) and …

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 …

so. We find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health …

their individual risk aversion. They choose between a fundamentalist and a trend-following rule to form expectations about … the price of a risky asset. Given their risk aversion, agents make a deterministic trade-off between mean and variance … both in choosing a forecasting heuristic and determining the number of risky assets to buy. Heterogeneous risk preferences …

We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment … with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences particularly … analysis of students' field behavior would yield largely misleading conclusions about the relation of risk aversion to these …