Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2009

Edited by W. Kip Viscusi

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Noise and bias in eliciting preferences pp. 213-235: John Hey, Andrea Morone and Ulrich Schmidt
Preference reversals and probabilistic decisions pp. 237-250: Pavlo Blavatskyy
Group cooperation under uncertainty pp. 251-270: Min Gong, Jonathan Baron and Howard Kunreuther
The influence of fear in decisions: Experimental evidence pp. 271-298: Olivier Chanel and Graciela Chichilnisky

A theory of medical decision making under uncertainty pp. 1-16: Edi Karni
Insurance decisions for low-probability losses pp. 17-44: Susan Laury, Melayne McInnes and J. Swarthout
Probability weighting and the ‘level’ and ‘spacing’ of outcomes: An experimental study over losses pp. 45-63: Nathalie ETCHART-VINCENT
Precautionary behavior and willingness to pay for a mortality risk reduction: Searching for the expected relationship pp. 65-85: Mikael Svensson
Time discounting: Declining impatience and interval effect pp. 87-112: Yusuke Kinari, Fumio Ohtake and Yoshiro Tsutsui

Reconciling support theory and the book-making principle pp. 173-190: Enrico Diecidue and Dolchai La-ornual
Valuing risks of death from terrorism and natural disasters pp. 191-213: W Kip Viscusi
Valuing a homeland security policy: Countermeasures for the threats from shoulder mounted missiles pp. 215-243: V. Smith, Carol Mansfield and Laurel Clayton
Does television terrify tourists? Effects of US television news on demand for tourism in Israel pp. 245-263: David Fielding and Anja K. Shortland

A note on uncertainty and discounting in models of economic growth pp. 87-94: Kenneth J. Arrow
The ostrich effect: Selective attention to information pp. 95-115: Niklas Karlsson, George Loewenstein and Duane Seppi
Pre-commitment and flexibility in a time decision experiment pp. 117-141: Marco Casari
Learning from mistakes: What do inconsistent choices over risk tell us? pp. 143-158: Sarah Jacobson and Ragan Petrie
Conditional payments and self-protection pp. 159-172: Liqun Liu, Andrew Rettenmaier and Thomas Saving

Naive, resolute or sophisticated? A study of dynamic decision making pp. 1-25: John Hey and Gianna Lotito
Risk aversion in the small and in the large: Calibration results for betweenness functionals pp. 27-37: Zvi Safra and Uzi Segal
Betting on own knowledge: Experimental test of overconfidence pp. 39-49: Pavlo Blavatskyy
Individual decision-making experiments with risk and intertemporal choice pp. 51-72: Lisa R. Anderson and Sarah Stafford
Adverse selection, moral hazard and propitious selection pp. 73-86: Philippe De Donder and Jean Hindriks

Discounting dilemmas: Editors’ introduction pp. 95-106: Richard Zeckhauser and W Kip Viscusi
Asymmetric or symmetric time preference and discounting in many facets of economic theory: A miscellany pp. 107-114: Paul A. Samuelson
Policymaking for posterity pp. 115-140: Lawrence H. Summers and Richard Zeckhauser
Discounting climate change pp. 141-169: Partha Dasgupta
Discounting with fat-tailed economic growth pp. 171-186: Christian Gollier
Perfect and total altruism across the generations pp. 187-197: Stephen Fels and Richard Zeckhauser
Estimating discount rates for environmental quality from utility-based choice experiments pp. 199-220: W Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber and Jason Bell
Conflicting motives in evaluations of sequences pp. 221-235: Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein
Individual laboratory-measured discount rates predict field behavior pp. 237-269: Christopher Chabris, David Laibson, Carrie Morris, Jonathon Schuldt and Dmitry Taubinsky

Resource allocation when projects have ranges of increasing returns pp. 1-33: Catherine Bobtcheff, Christian Gollier and Richard Zeckhauser
One-reason decision-making: Modeling violations of expected utility theory pp. 35-56: Konstantinos Katsikopoulos and Gerd Gigerenzer
Myopic risk-seeking: The impact of narrow decision bracketing on lottery play pp. 57-75: Emily Haisley, Romel Mostafa and George Loewenstein
An experimental investigation of violations of transitivity in choice under uncertainty pp. 77-91: Michael Birnbaum and Ulrich Schmidt
Resource allocations when projects have ranges of increasing returns pp. 93-93: Catherine Bobtcheff, Christian Gollier and Richard Zeckhauser

Third-generation prospect theory pp. 203-223: Ulrich Schmidt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden
Causes of ambiguity aversion: Known versus unknown preferences pp. 225-243: Stefan Trautmann, Ferdinand Vieider and Peter P. Wakker
A tractable method to measure utility and loss aversion under prospect theory pp. 245-266: Mohammed Abdellaoui, Han Bleichrodt and Olivier L’Haridon
On the intensity of downside risk aversion pp. 267-276: David Crainich and Louis Eeckhoudt

Self-protection and insurance with interdependencies pp. 103-123: Alexander Muermann and Howard Kunreuther
Valuing lives equally: Defensible premise or unwarranted compromise? pp. 125-138: Rachel Baker, Susan Chilton, Michael Jones-Lee and Hugh Metcalf
Risk preferences and changes in background risk pp. 139-152: Donald Keenan, Donald Rudow and Arthur Snow
What impacts the impact of rare events pp. 153-177: Ido Erev, Ira Glozman and Ralph Hertwig
Cancer premiums and latency effects: A risk tradeoff approach for valuing reductions in fatal cancer risks pp. 179-199: George Houtven, Melonie Sullivan and Chris Dockins
Generalized expected utility, heteroscedastic error, and path dependence in risky choice pp. 201-201: David Buschena and David Zilberman

Correcting expected utility for comparisons between alternative outcomes: A unified parameterization of regret and disappointment pp. 1-17: Carlos Laciana and Elke Weber
The effect of the background risk in a simple chance improving decision model pp. 19-41: Jinkwon Lee
Measuring revisions to subjective expectations pp. 43-82: Adeline Delavande
Prospect theory for continuous distributions pp. 83-102: Marc Rieger and Mei Wang