We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how they robustly explain eleven kinds of risky … behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is … heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex ante. To close this knowledge gap, greater diversification across risk measures …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

In this paper, we investigate how climate risk impacts the sovereign risk, the stock market evolution, and the degree … as a percentage of GDP. Moreover, the climate risk leads to an increase in sovereign risk only across inferior quantiles … competitiveness of a country is influenced to a small extent by the level of climate risk. This could be a consequence of concerns …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …

investment's Value-at-Risk as a reasonable calculation of the worst threat an action appears to make possible, and its return … offer. In exploring the extension of the Value-at-Risk approach from applications to investments in financial assets to … applications to investments in real assets, the properties of Value-at-Risk as a risk measure are reviewed. Recognizing that Value-at-Risk …

the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …-income population of Bogotá, characterized by limited financial education and subject to substantial income risk. In line with the … theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is associated with higher savings for loss-averse individuals …

the present paper we call such combinations ‘coupled risk measures' and develop a statistical inferential theory for them …Considerable literature has been devoted to developing statistical inferential results for risk measures, especially … a number of risk measures that are of the form of ratios, or even more complex combinations, of two L-functionals. In …