disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper … integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are … account for risk averse preferences in the assessment of income-related health inequalities. The empirical application using …

of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance …In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same …

Financial risk management is difficult at the best of times, but especially so in the presence of economic uncertainty … and financial crises. The purpose of this special issue on "Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy … methods have contributed significantly to the analysis of financial risk management when there is economic uncertainty …

game theory to assess the economics of transboundary river water allocation in a simple model of river sharing. This model …

Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world's poorest countries? To study … conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …