Do the choices of consumers who search for a product's best price exhibit risk neutral, risk averse or loss averse risk … pay for continued search and the level of price uncertainty depends on her risk preferences. Independent of the current … best price, an increase in price uncertainty encourages continued search when consumers are risk neutral. However, we prove …

common knowledge, except that bidders have private degrees of aversion to downside-risk. In this model, the optimal FPA … risk or risk aversion generally leads to lower equilibrium bids. …

if the variance of exam grades is higher and higher if the skew is higher: employers shift the cost of productivity risk … to new hires, but pay for the opportunity to catch a really good worker. Estimating the extent of risk cost sharing …

We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion … may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA … their risk aversion parameter invest less in risky assets than wealthy investors with identical risk aversion uncertainty. …

creating a link. However, the interplay of such uncertainty and risk attitudes has been neglected in the network formation …, incomplete information, and risk aversion. The model predicts that an agent's risk aversion is correlated with her network …

be risk averse, (ii) the bidders can have heterogeneous risk preferences, and (iii) the auction can have a binding … reserve price. Our analysis reveals that the premium has an intricate joint effect on risk sharing and expected revenue, which … in general benefits risk averse bidders. When the seller is more risk averse than the pivotal bidder - a condition often …