"Individual risk" currently plays a major role in risk assessment and in the regulatory practices of the health and … safety agencies that employ risk assessment, such as EPA, FDA, OSHA, NRC, CPSC, and others. Risk assessors use the term … "population risk" to mean the number of deaths caused by some hazard. By contrast, "individual risk" is the incremental …

by experts in risk assessment? If regulators cannot eliminate public fears through education, then there is some social … them as endogenous variables. I use this framework to evaluate risk regulations in terms of economic efficiency and suggest … the risk assessment requirements in the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, may represent a reasonable …

terms of control and income rights. Important factors are (limited) liability, risk-bearing costs, transaction costs, and …

's desire to tilt, smooth and stabilize consumption as well as minimize portfolio risk. In this context we also show how the …

There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … that female fund managers tend to behave as expected from gender studies: they are more risk averse and shy away from …

This paper examines the cross-fertilizations of random utility models with the study of decision making under risk and … addressing risk and ambiguity in individual choice contexts are to understand the decision choice process, and to use behavioral …