Using a specially designed experiment, we investigate whether and how interdependence in risk exposure i.e., risk … taking by some members of a potential risk sharing group affecting not only their own but also their co-members risk exposure …, affects both risk taking and ex post sharing. The experimental subjects were Sri Lankan small-holders who face interdependent …

-public partnership drawing on both its servicing and risk-bearing capabilities. Policymakers, regulators, businesses, and other …

reduction (self-protection) so that correlation becomes endogenous. If prevention concerns only one risk, introducing a second … exogenous risk increases the level of prevention expenditures, even if correlation is negative. If prevention expenditures may … increased dependence increases aggregate prevention expenditures, but not necessarily prevention expenditures for each risk due …

well as heterogenic risk concentration. There is an assumption that economic systems have different orders for both the …

labor-income risk can explain much of this risk-taking pattern. Uncontrollable labor-income risk stresses middle …, middle-income households reduce (controllable) financial risk. Richer households, having less pressure, can afford more risk …-taking. The poor take low risk because they avoid jeopardizing their subsistence consumption. …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality, and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This likely contributes to the predictive power of the …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that … risk taking is not affected by the choice being observed by a matched participant. Nor do investments follow elicited norms …

We show how to use panel data on household consumption to directly estimate households’ risk preferences. Specifically …, we measure heterogeneity in risk aversion among households in Thai villages using a full risk-sharing model, which we … then test allowing for this heterogeneity. There is substantial, statistically significant heterogeneity in estimated risk …