role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk … aversion on IEA formation under no learning. Combining learning and risk aversion seems appropriate as the uncertainties …

payers act according to some non-expected utility theory, and (2) Individual ethical norms and social stigma induce people … subjective probabilities of being penalised according to the rank dependent utility theory, and (2) Tax payers' beliefs about … utility theory. The model explains data 53% better than pure random choices and predicts hours worked in the regular economy …

I examine the impact of risk preferences on efforts and winning probabilities in generalised Tullock contests between …' comparative prudence under which a higher common level of risk aversion leads to lower aggregate effort in symmetric contests …. Second, I show that for a certain range of parameters in asymmetric contests, higher risk-aversion will be a disadvantage if …

-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time real options model with “tail risk”. In a nutshell, our results … indicate the importance of tail risk and call for foresighted pre-emptive climate policies …

ex ante identical households and the no-risk case with heterogeneous abilities come out as special cases …

This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contribution pension contracts. We … consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate …

with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter …. Major results include that growth, inequality, and risk are positively related in our model, but we also identify a hump …–shaped relationship between welfare and risk, indicating a tradeoff relationship between risk–pooling and growth in the determination of …