characteristics. To address heterogeneity in preferences for risk reduction, we use a non-linear conditional logit model with …This paper presents a choice experiment, which values reductions in mortality risk on Alpine roads. These roads are on …

This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster … is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss. -- Decision under … Risk ; Large Losses ; Natural Experiment …

The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some fundamental properties of the considered uncertainties. The application … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …

significantly influence consumption dynamics. Our estimates of the indexes of relative risk aversion and relative prudence, as well …

Models (IAMs), which assumes no risk sharing across region, we introduce global risk sharing via a market for state … across regions. We estimate that such risk sharing scheme of climate risks could lead to welfare gains reducing the global … for considering risk sharing in IAMs, but also for potentially welfare increasing negotiations about sharing risks of …

: financial risk and environmental risk. The analysis is carried out using time series data for six advanced economies in the … period 1965-2007. The results support the theoretical conclusions that both financial risk alone and the interaction between … empirical analysis performed with one-argument utility functions. Finally, we provide new estimates of indexes of relative risk …