find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …

This paper examines how cooperation in an insurance game depends on risk preferences and the riskiness of income. It … of the discount factor above which perfect risk sharing is self-enforcing. When agents face no aggregate risk, there is … of idiosyncratic and aggregate risk. In the case of exponential (isoelastic) utility, cooperation depends positively on …

We report a controlled laboratory experiment examining risk-taking and information aggregation in groups facing a … common risk. The experiment allows us to examine how subjects respond to new information, in the form of both privately …

A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table … with an individual preference for a choice under risk, based on privately received information, and can share this … information with fellow group members. They then make a decision under risk on behalf of the group using a random dictatorship …

-stated risk attitudes by exploiting changes in media coverage of economic news. We use information on risk attitudes from the … and the month preceding the date of the risk attitude elicitation. Using fixed effects regressions we observe effects of … that are aggregated over the previous month, however, relates to a decrease in risk aversion if the news are predominantly …

-stated risk attitudes by exploiting changes in media coverage of economic news. We use information on risk attitudes from the … and the month preceding the date of the risk attitude elicitation. Using fixed effects regressions we observe effects of … that are aggregated over the previous month, however, relates to a decrease in risk aversion if the news are predominantly …

The willingness to trust human receivers is compared to the inclination to take lottery risk in six distinct scenarios … pure-risk lottery allocation, and paired comparisons reveal that investors sacrifice 5% of the expected payoff to trust … complement the accumulating evidence regarding physiological differences between trust and risk, in addition suggesting that the …

environments modify students’ risk-taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth …