financial planners can use to help clients overcome behavioral hurdles.• Risk assessment questions that measure loss aversion … for certainty has been observed in advanced age and older defined contribution investors exhibit equity-varying risk … aversion, so client risk preferences should be reassessed later in life.• Clients face declining cognitive abilities over time …

One of the standard predictions of the agency theory is that more incentives can be given to agents with lower risk … obtain that lower agent’s risk aversion unambiguously leads to higher incentives when the technology function linking … efficiency and riskiness is elastic, while the risk aversion–incentive relationship can be positive when this function is rigid. …

the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …-income population of Bogotá, characterized by limited financial education and subject to substantial income risk. In line with the … theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is associated with higher savings for loss-averse individuals …

-making. Firstly, we simultaneously elicit and estimate risk and time preferences in a real-life context, with horizons up to 10 years …

fundamental macroeconomic risk. The cross-country high-minuslow (HML) conditional skewness of the unemployment gap - our measure …

dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk …

dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk …