assessments of risk and benefit. The results indicate that this relationship is consistent across a variety of products and … heuristic and subsequent judgments of risk and benefit. Recently, Song and Schwarz investigated the relationship between … differences in fluency and perceptions of risk. Their results suggested that fluency experiences influence risk perception through …

A methodology for the conceptual design phase risk assessment of an aerospace system was proposed. The method was … designed to examine political, social, and economic risk over a systems lifecycle through the use of future scenarios to bound … political, social, and economic risk during conceptual level design, and that this information can be used to aid in design down …

how risk dimensions influence the decision to hold, reinvest in, or terminate investment in companies within a venture …. Financial risk is an equivocal signal because it can indicate a problem or recur by design in the VC-backed portfolio company …. Different levels of market, technology and management risk are all central characteristics of portfolio winners or losers. I …

In this thesis we consider two comparative statics questions of changes in risk. The first question concerns situations … where an individual faces some risk and has no control over the uncertain environment. In these situations we ask what kind … of changes in risk will cause the individual's expected utility to increase. The second comparative statics question …