although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …

risk. However, it is only recently that this intuitive notion has been formalized and axiomatically characterized. We … one can jointly estimate attitudes towards uncertainty, attitudes towards risk, and subjective probabilities in a rigorous … uncertainty aversion in an empirically tractable manner. Our results show that attitudes towards risk and uncertainty can be …

This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we … develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and … (human capital) risk increases social welfare if the government adjusts the tax-and-transfer system optimally. Finally, we …

the scenarios of both certainty and uncertainty. We capture the direct interest rate-hysteresis on the investments and the …

substantial. The second result is that true wage risk is almost three times as large as the wage variance observed after job … mobility, which is what other papers in the literature have called wage risk. This suggests a very different picture of the …