The relationship between risk in the environment, risk aversion and inequality aversion is not well understood … with varying degrees of risk (“endowment risk”) influence individual behavior. We derive theoretical predictions for these … games using utility functions that capture additively separable constant relative risk aversion and inequity aversion. We …

We conduct laboratory experiments to investigate basic predictions of principal-agent theory about the choice of piece … rate contracts in the presence of output risk, and provide novel insights that reference dependent preferences affect the … tradeoff between risk and incentives. Subjects in our experiments choose their compensation for performing a real-effort task …