negatively related to basis risk, to quantity risk, and to transaction costs. Farmers who have less uncertainty about prices have … incentive to hedge can be greatly reduced. And finally, farmers who have low levels of risk aversion have little to gain from … hedging in terms of risk reduction, in that the certainty equivalent payoff at their optimal hedge may be little different to …

-transactions. These premia are credit spreads on top of the risk free interest rate and compensate investors for the expected annualized … default loss and for the risk of default losses. Focusing on the second component, the pure risk aversion premium, the paper … estimates the relative risk aversion (RRA) implied by the credit spreads and the loss distributions of 215 differently rated …

.Chapter IIIThis paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averse individuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is … risk-averse subjects are equally likely to cooperate in the prisoner’s dilemma and equally likely to punish in the … risk attitude is a factor when making the decision to cooperate. …

the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

risk aversion and models of the utility function. One particular theory (expected utility with rank dependent probabilities …"Most decisions (political, economic, and social) are made in the context of risk so the subject of human behavior … under risk is of interest to several disciplines. Social science researchers who apply experimental methods to study …

This thesis contributes to the development of theoretical and experimental approaches that extend the analysis of risk … preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … are concerned with extensions and applications of the most promising descriptive theories of behavior under risk. In these …

coordinate inventory and pricing strategies. In each case, we characterize the optimal policy for various measures of risk that … (and pricing) policies. Computational results demonstrate the importance of this approach not only to risk-averse decision …Traditional inventory models focus on risk-neutral decision makers, i.e., characterizing replenishment strategies that …