more risk averse, to having social status concerns, and to relying more often on formal and informal insurance. However …

-)variance of power plant profits. If investors are risk-averse, these differ- ences lead to divergent investment portfolios …, breaking the equivalence of price- and quantity-based policy instruments under risk-neutrality. Using the European power sector … with increasing risk aversion. …

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk … attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the … perceives the threat of job loss and is of a transitory nature. The change in stated risk attitude matches observable job …

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared … to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate … educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky future income paths and therefore depends on risk and time preferences …

Overbidding in auctions has been attributed to e.g. risk aversion, loser regret, level-k, and cursedness, relying on …