too sensitive to the poverty line and that the welfare cost of risk is more severe when an individual's chronic poverty is …

interest is defined as the risk minimizer for a suitable loss function and candidate estimators are generated using a loss … minimizing, over subsets of variables (e.g., basis functions), the empirical risk of subset-specific estimators of the parameter …

Because they track the Model Penal Code, current criminal law formulations of risk offenses typically fail to … particular violator's conscious disregard of, or his inattentiveness to, a risk in a particular situation sufficiently … of reckless and negligent culpability - and fail to provide a rule of conduct provision to define a prohibited risk …

’ positions. This paper uses data from a realistic competitive risk taking setting, Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions, to test … aspiration and survival targets guide risk-taking behavior in competitive situations. Furthermore, in situations where decisions …

This paper shows that the precautionary premium embodies a tradeoff between risk and downside risk. It is the size of a … mean-preserving spread for thish the strength of aversion to risk just offsets the strength of aversion to downside risk …. Using this result, decreasing absolute prudence can be interpreted as meaning that the amount of exposure to risk (as …