We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …

banking. Moreover, pre-crisis incentive pay appears too strong for an optimal trade-off between trading income and risk which …

consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences … not exposed to risk while beneficiaries' final earnings may be larger or smaller than the allocation itself, depending on … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …

empirically show two main findings: first, risk-taking is positively related to the length of tax loss periods because the loss … rules shift some risk to the government; and second, the tax rate has a positive effect on risk-taking for firms that expect …

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use … patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals …

We present an experimental study on how people take risk on behalf of others. We use three different elicitation …. We find a weak tendency of lower risk-taking with others' money compared to own money. However, subjects believe that … other participants take more risk with other people's money than with their own. At the same time, subjects on average think …

environments modify students’ risk-taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth …

facilitate intergenerational risk-sharing. In addition to the primary benefit of improved time diversification, this form of risk … results of the paper is that better intergenerational risk-sharing does not reduce the risk born by each generation. Rather …

the low observed take-up of long-term care insurance in Canada despite substantial residual out-of-pocket financial risk … risk, lack of bequest motive and home ownership which may act as a substitute …

' risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions … important role in explaining the aversion to risk manifested in deductible choices. This finding is robust to allowing for …