exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that only if exogenous risk is sufficiently large, the risk-neutral principal … may prefer to delegate authority over decisions to the risk-averse agent. Intuitively, for incentive reasons, the … principal may optimally want to allow the agent to reduce his risk exposure. Nevertheless, even endogenous risk may be higher …

We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual …-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions - even those providing the same level of insurance - can lead to …

policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic …

range of specific outcomes, allowing us to measure uncertainty, assess its driving forces, and compare this measure of … uncertainty with the dispersion of point-estimates among individual forecasters (a measure of disagreement). We also assess the …. Finally we assess the role of risk, finding little evidence that risk-aversion drives a wedge between market prices and …

frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are …. Estimates of productivity risk, once we control for employment risk and for individual labour supply choices, are substantially … lower than estimates that attribute all wage variation to productivity risk. Increases in productivity risk impose a …