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Solomonic separation: Risk decisions as productivity indicators

Miller, Nolan; Wagner, Alexander; Zeckhauser, Richard - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 46 (2013) 3, pp. 265-297

A principal provides budgets to agents (e.g., divisions of a firm or the principal’s children) whose expenditures provide her benefits, either materially or because of altruism. Only agents know their potential to generate benefits. We prove that if the more “productive” agents are also...

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On risk aversion, classical demand theory, and KM preferences

Mirman, Leonard; Santugini, Marc - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48 (2014) 1, pp. 51-66

Building on Kihlstrom and Mirman (Journal of Economic Theory, 8(3), 361–388, <CitationRef CitationID="CR4 … relationship between changes in risk aversion and classical demand theory. We show that the effect of risk aversion on optimal …

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Joint measurement of risk aversion, prudence, and temperance

Ebert, Sebastian; Wiesen, Daniel - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48 (2014) 3, pp. 231-252

. In contrast to commonly used utility functions, prospect theory can predict this behavioral pattern. In our experiment …

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Experts in experiments

Gaudecker, Hans-Martin; Soest, Arthur; Wengström, Erik - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 45 (2012) 2, pp. 159-190

An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. We are concerned with two types of selection effects, which may affect the external validity of standard experiments: Sampling...

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The “bomb” risk elicitation task

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 47 (2013) 1, pp. 31-65

This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which contains a bomb. Earnings increase linearly with the number of boxes accumulated but are zero if the bomb is...

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Bias and brains: Risk aversion and cognitive ability across real and hypothetical settings

Taylor, Matthew - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 46 (2013) 3, pp. 299-320

I collect data on subjects’ risk attitudes using real and hypothetical risky choices. I also measure their cognitive ability using the cognitive reflective test (CRT). On average, measured risk preferences are not significantly different across real and hypothetical settings. However,...

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Prospect theory and the “forgotten” fourfold pattern of risk preferences

Scholten, Marc; Read, Daniel - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48 (2014) 1, pp. 67-83

risk aversion in losses. This fourfold pattern was not addressed by either version of prospect theory (Kahneman and Tversky …:297–323, <CitationRef CitationID="CR43">1992</CitationRef>). We show how prospect theory can accommodate the pattern by combining an … overweighting of low probabilities with a decreasingly elastic value function. We then examine the performance of prospect theory …

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Risk and choice: A research saga

Gollier, Christian; Hammitt, James; Treich, Nicolas - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 47 (2013) 2, pp. 129-145

The economic theory of decision making under risk has seen remarkable advances over the 50 years since Pratt’s (1964 …

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Too risk averse to purchase insurance?

Bommier, Antoine; Grand, François - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48 (2014) 2, pp. 135-166

This paper suggests a new explanation for the low level of annuitization, which is valid even if one assumes perfect markets. We show that, as soon there is a positive bequest motive, sufficiently risk averse individuals should not purchase annuities. A model calibration accounting for lifetime...

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Single-year and multi-year insurance policies in a competitive market

Kleindorfer, Paul; Kunreuther, Howard; Ou-Yang, Chieh - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 45 (2012) 1, pp. 51-78

This paper examines the demand and supply of annual and multi-year insurance contracts with respect to protection against a catastrophic risk in a competitive market. Insurers who offer annual policies can cancel policies at the end of each year and change the premium in the following year....

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