We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at … nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one …-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level uncertainty at a one-year forecast horizon doubled at the onset of the …

earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …

environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature …A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience, creativity and attention/focus. Our main finding is that chess … training reduces the level of risk aversion almost a year after the intervention ended. We also find that chess training …, these (non-risk preference) results are less conclu-sive once we account for multiple hypothesis testing. We do not find any …