. The transfer of some mortality risk to younger people raises dfficult ethical issues. However, none of the familiar moral …

As in any research field, risk theory has its important questions, results, and paradoxes, as well as its seminal … contributions to the literature, and provides some illustrations of the remarkable research saga in risk theory over the last 50 … papers and key authors. Louis Eeckhoudt has been a key author in the field of risk theory. To celebrate his many …

As in any research field, risk theory has its important questions, results, and paradoxes, as well as its seminal … contributions to the literature, and provides some illustrations of the remarkable research saga in risk theory over the last 50 … papers and key authors. Louis Eeckhoudt has been a key author in the field of risk theory. To celebrate his many …

) characterization of risk aversion under expected utility. We review developments in three key areas to which Louis Eeckhoudt has made …The economic theory of decision making under risk has seen remarkable advances over the 50 years since Pratt’s (1964 … significant contributions: (1) increases in risk and risk taking; (2) self-protection and risk aversion; and (3) higher (and lower …