We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …

risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty – the ambiguity triangle – and show that … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 …

This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes … truncation of the data, allows to precisely estimate both risk aversion and risk seeking, and is not affected by the degree of … gap that often characterizes choices under uncertainty by means of a higher loss rather than risk aversion …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

national security as of March 2022. Fourth, firm-level risk perceptions skewed heavily to the downside in spring 2020 but …

Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of … with the observability of ethnicity, and the exposure to situations where there is a risk of discrimination, to produce a … Strait Islanders Social Survey (NATSISS) is presented that is consistent with the predictions of this theory …