Investors may be unaware of the high risk associated with a high-return financial product and thus may purchase risky products inconsistent with their risk attitudes. We conducted an experiment and survey in Shenzhen, China, to measure individuals' risk preferences, financial literacy, and the...

We incorporate unawareness into the delegation problem between a financial expert and an investor, and study their pre-delegation communication. The expert has superior awareness of the possible states of the world, and decides whether to reveal some of them to the investor. We find that the...

The paper introduces the problem of unawareness into Principal-Agent theory and discusses optimal incentive contracts when the agent may be unaware of her action space. Depending on the agent's default behavior, it can be optimal for the principal to propose an incomplete contract (that keeps...