This thesis contributes to the development of theoretical and experimental approaches that extend the analysis of risk … are concerned with extensions and applications of the most promising descriptive theories of behavior under risk. In these … subpopulations are best described by different models.Chapter 1 analyzes how higher-order risk preferences, such as prudence and …

risk through investment in equipment or production of other crops on the property. …

from a set of probable trusted agents. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy risk based decision making system that would …Decision making is a tough process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting what the final outcome … might be. Depending on the projection of the uncertain outcome, a decision has to be made. In a peer-to-peer financial …

is obvious for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk beforehand that could be involved in dealing with a trusted peer in … might have to choose a peer to interact with, from a set of possible trusted peers. It can ease its decision making process … of choosing a peer to interact with by analyzing the Risk that could be involved in dealing with each of the possible …

and other fuel treatment methods are continually being improved to assist with wildland fire and prescribed fire decision …

-attribute decision tools are also applied as another approach to select a PDM. Using quantitative risk analysis and concentrating on the … transit industry. The decision support system (DSS) developed in this research provides useful information and introduces the … advantages and limitations of each PDM to the decision makers. A requisite well-structured decision making process is embedded in …

how risk dimensions influence the decision to hold, reinvest in, or terminate investment in companies within a venture … risk can be decomposed into multiple dimensions with differing effects on decision-making. Furthermore, my analysis goes …. Financial risk is an equivocal signal because it can indicate a problem or recur by design in the VC-backed portfolio company …

A methodology for the conceptual design phase risk assessment of an aerospace system was proposed. The method was … designed to examine political, social, and economic risk over a systems lifecycle through the use of future scenarios to bound … uncertainty. A decision support framework was developed to allow the user to visualize the differences in performance and economic …

This research discusses small decision making problems and petty corruption as their practical applications with a … rare outcomes when they relied on feedback in small decision making problems. Underweighting of rare events lead the … opposite of the overweighting of rare outcomes observed in mainstream big description-based decision problems. It is revealed …

In this thesis we consider two comparative statics questions of changes in risk. The first question concerns situations … where an individual faces some risk and has no control over the uncertain environment. In these situations we ask what kind … of changes in risk will cause the individual's expected utility to increase. The second comparative statics question …