find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …

social context affected risk-taking behavior. Remotely, pairs take far fewer risks when the stakes are high than in the flesh …

degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …

We examine the relationship between private bank deposits and macro/fiscal risk in the euro area. We test three … hypotheses: First, private bank deposits relative to Germany are determined by macro/fiscal risk factors. Second, this … relationship is time-varying. Third, time-variation is driven by the level of macro/fiscal risk. Our findings validate all three …

consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences … not exposed to risk while beneficiaries' final earnings may be larger or smaller than the allocation itself, depending on … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …

empirically show two main findings: first, risk-taking is positively related to the length of tax loss periods because the loss … rules shift some risk to the government; and second, the tax rate has a positive effect on risk-taking for firms that expect …

Many studies document systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk … degrees of risk. We also observe policy differences between male- and female-controlled groups, though these are considerably …

We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that … make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk … to rationalize with incentive theories of bonus pay - but support an important risk sharing motive. In particular …