accepting a bribe that leads to a higher present period income while facing the risk of being audited and being left with a … considerable lower income in all subsequent periods. Because risk attitudes might differ when putting earned versus endowed income … at risk, we compare treatments where participants either receive an endowment beforehand, or earn their income by …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …

is a new risk factor for enterprises taking part in this system. In this paper, we analyze how risk emerging from … loss account accounting for uncertainties and dependencies. Consequently, this model provides a basis for risk assessment …

The determinants of risk attitude in couples are explored using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the … take risk. Responses to this question are provided on a 0-10 Likert scale. We focus on couples in the data set, and we … female's risk attitude. A number of individual characteristics, including age, height, education and household income, are …

Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

responsible for somebody else's payoffs increases risk aversion. This is however not attributable to a 'cautious shift' as often … thought. Indeed, looking at risk attitudes in the loss domain, we find an increase in risk seeking under responsibility. This … raises issues about the nature of various decision biases under risk, and to what extent changed behavior under …

This study validates a survey-based measure of general risk attitude by an incentive compatible experiment among more … than 900 participants in rural Thailand. The survey measure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation … of the experimentally derived risk attitude. This holds when we add various socio-demographic control variables to the …

We provide a preference-based rationale for endogenous overconfidence. Horizon-dependent risk aversion, combined with a … possibility to forget, can generate overconfidence and excessive risk taking in equilibrium. An "anxiety prone" agent, who is more … risk-averse to imminent than to distant risks, has an incentive to distort her future self's beliefs toward underestimating …