future events on households’ financial situation. Households are asked to assess specific risks for their own household … (treatment) or for a household with similar characteristics (control). On average, households assign a lower probability to … shocks that negatively affect personal finances if asked for their own household compared to a similar household. We do not …

We investigate risk presentations in retirement savings decisions using a discrete choice experiment where subjects …

allocating retirement savings within a compulsory defined contribution retirement plan. The paper develops the implications and … retirement savings scheme. The experiment finds overall rates of violation of roughly 25%, and substantial variation in rates …

savings patterns. Terrorism increases household savings to a significant and economically meaningful degree. Two terror … data of the elderly population from 13 European countries, this study analyzes the impact of terrorism risk on household … of attacks is negative, savings increase with the number of fatalities. We give a potential explanation for this …

explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …