We develop a basic framework to understand the organization of highly creative activities. Management faces a … creative talent. Procuring highly creative products in the market place, though, exposes the distributor to a fundamental risk …, distributors face the unavoidable winner's curse risk. Since this risk is, to a large extent, independent of the creative nature of …

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

Empirical work testing for a negative tradeoff between risk and incentives, a cornerstone of agency theory, has not had …

's systematic equity risk and falls with the firm's unsystematic equity risk. Further, an increase in the firm's total equity risk … is associated with a fall in q. The negative relation between the change in total risk and the change in q is robust …

implications of risky behaviors by youths. I begin by reviewing perspectives on youth risk-taking from traditional rational … risk-taking by youths, and how this compares to adults. I review the evidence on youth risk taking from the studies in this … risk taking by youths, (b) despite this, these factors are not very successful in predicting the dramatic time series …

Typical value-at-risk (VAR) calculations involve the probabilities of extreme dollar losses, based on the statistical … VAR values that are adjusted for risk aversion, time preferences, and other variations in economic valuation. In the … context of a representative agent equilibrium model, we construct an estimator of the risk-aversion coefficient that is …