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 …

households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable … macroeconomic model with human capital risk, age-dependent returns to human capital investment, and endogenous borrowing constraints …

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 …

consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and …) welfare-neutral. A smaller part of measured income mobility is due to either welfare-reducing income risk or welfare …