take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a … burden of MDs. Specifically, a 10 μg/m3 daily increase in PM2.5 is associated with a 3.55% increase in the risk of HAs for …

-reported importance of religion and on the risk of youths having early sexual intercourse, drinking underage, trying cigarettes, trying …

have over those risks are weakly negatively correlated. Managerial risk ratings are positively associated with both injury …

We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our … conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training decisions through the bonuses they expect to receive …. Risk-averse managers are expected to select workers with low turnover risk and invest in specific rather than general …

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper … explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … default risk of firms which operate in these environments. The predictions are in accord with readily available data …

We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The … approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross … decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the changes in income risk in Britain across the inequality growth …