This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial … employment and income, but increases financial hardship and financial risk aversion. These impacts are generally short …

-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …

on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …

This paper investigates the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become an entrepreneur. In contrast to previous … variation in risk aversion the early exposure to a massive earthquake. Using several waves of the Bank of Italy Survey of … Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), we find that individuals experiencing an earthquake become significantly more risk averse …

donations following the Bushfires, compared to non-disaster periods, is substantially greater for females than males; the … proportional increase in the number of females donating for the first time after the disaster is approximately twice the …

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. …

We conduct laboratory experiments to investigate basic predictions of principal-agent theory about the choice of piece … rate contracts in the presence of output risk, and provide novel insights that reference dependent preferences affect the … tradeoff between risk and incentives. Subjects in our experiments choose their compensation for performing a real-effort task …

increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify changes in risk-independent performance and risk taking, our … increases in risk taking. These effects are concentrated among those closest to the margin of elimination and among lower …

) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … reduces cooperation. In neither study, nor in either subject pool of our second study, do we find a significant effect of risk. …

Risk-averse job seekers fearing the scarring effect of unemployment meet vacancies offering contractual employment … risk and the scarring risk of unemployment. SPC diversify the income risk, but provide only limited protection against the … scarring risk. (1) Workers strictly prefer contract market to spot market jobs. (2) A higher productivity, a lower probability …