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Does adverse selection hamper the effectiveness of voluntary risk sharing? How do differences in risk profiles affect … vary how risk profiles differ between individuals. We find strong evidence for adverse selection if individuals risk … profiles can be ranked according to first-order stochastic dominance and only little evidence for adverse selection if risk …
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Most large-scale economic experiments use a between-subjects random incentive system-BRIS-which selects a subset of the participants at random and offers real payment only to the selected participants. We evaluate the relative impact of nominal payoffs and the selection probability on the...
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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 …
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implemented. Fama & Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation …
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This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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, exposing them to the risk of having to pay a large premium in case they are discovered to have a high probability of developing … a disease (a discrimination risk). Differently, Consent Law allows them to hide this detrimental information, creating …
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their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty …
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-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 …
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How does risk affect saving? Empirical work typically examines the effects of detectible differences in risk within the … data. How these differences affect saving in theoretical models depends on the metric one uses for risk. For labor …-income risk, second-degree increases in risk require prudence to induce increased saving demand. However, prudence is not …
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Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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