Purpose -The recent financial crises in America and Europe have shown emphatically that the findings of the relevant risk management literature concluding that lurking risks can be converted into opportunities have unfortunately not informed policy. The assumption of the risk as a burden, often...

In the first paper we give a holistic overview and comparison of all risk elicitation methods used today, and recommend that a derivation of Holt and Laury’s (2002) well-known method, where the high payoff instead of the probabilites are varied, should be used as it emerges as the best method...

We hypothesise and confirm a previously unnoticed pattern within pre-existing data on the endowment effect, collected via seven experiments employing the original design. Subjects with low valuations in binary choice relative to other subjects set a proportionally higher willingness to accept....