We use the Emmy Award-winning game show Cash Cab to study decision-making in a risky framework. This is a unique environment because, unlike other studies on risk-aversion, players participate individually or in teams varying in number from two to five. This creates a natural laboratory to...

1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Concepts -- 3. Robust Problems -- 4. General Reformulation Results -- 5. General Solution Methods -- 6. Robust election Problems -- 7. Robust Shortest Path Problems -- 8. Robust Spanning Tree Problems -- 9. Other Combinatorial Problems -- 10. Other Models for Robust...

We develop a unified model of the interactions among investors, fund companies and fund managers. We show that the interplay between a manager's incentives from her compensation structure and career concerns leads to a non-monotonic (approximately U-shaped) relation between her risk choices and...