This paper investigates whether there is a link between numeracy skill and choice consistency using a population of roughly 250 patients enrolled on the waiting list for kidney transplantation in Italy. Patients participate in a discrete choice experiment (DCE) measuring time and risk...

A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015), and Koolhaas et al. (2017). A recent and...

A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015), and Koolhaas et al. (2017). A recent and...

A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015), and Koolhaas et al. (2017). A recent and...

A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015), and Koolhaas et al. (2017). A recent and...

This article surveys the literature on risk aversion in medical decision making. Risk aversion concepts are presented in the frameworks of Subjective Expected Utility and Rank Dependent Expected Utility theories. The methodologies for measuring risk aversion and its applications to clinical...

This article surveys the literature on risk aversion in medical decision making. The search covered Econlit, Jstor Science Direct and Springer Link since 1985. The results are classified in three topics: Risk aversion in the frameworks of Expected Utility and Rank Dependent Expected Utility...

Se realiza una revisión de literatura sobre la aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas. Se presenta la aversión al riesgo desde las teorías de la utilidad esperada subjetiva y desde la utilidad esperada basada en rangos. Se revisan las metodologías de medición de la aversión...

Resumen: El artículo presenta una revisión de literatura sobre la aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas. Se cubrieron las bases de datos Econlit, Jstor, Science Direct y Springer Link desde 1985. Los resultados se dividen en tres temas: la aversión al riesgo desde las teorías...

Ziel des Beitrages ist es, die neueren Erkenntnisse der Neurobiologie zum Entscheidungsverhalten von Menschen für die Entwicklung eines idealtypischen Ablaufplans ökonomischer Entscheidungsvorgänge einzusetzen, indem die Logik deutlich gemacht wird, die den Aufbau des menschlichen Gehirns...