Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2013

Edited by W. Kip Viscusi

from Springer
Series data maintained by Guenther Eichhorn ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Track citations for all items by RSS feed
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 46, issue 2, 2013

Assessing multiple prior models of behaviour under ambiguity pp. 113-132

Anna Conte and John Denis Hey

Estimating discount factors for public and private goods and testing competing discounting hypotheses pp. 133-173

Andrew Meyer

The arguments of utility: Preference reversals in expected utility of income models pp. 175-189

Luke Lindsay

Heterogeneity in life-duration preferences: Are risky recreationists really more risk loving? pp. 191-213

Mary Riddel and Sonja Kolstoe

Volume 46, issue 1, 2013

Ambiguity attitudes and social interactions: An experimental investigation pp. 1-25

Gary Charness, Edi Karni and Dan Levin

Life expectancy as a constructed belief: Evidence of a live-to or die-by framing effect pp. 27-50

John Payne, Namika Sagara, Suzanne Shu, Kirstin Appelt and Eric Johnson

Deterring domestic violence: Do criminal sanctions reduce repeat offenses? pp. 51-80

Frank Sloan, Alyssa Platt, Lindsey Chepke and Claire Blevins

One-sided commitment in dynamic insurance contracts: Evidence from private health insurance in Germany pp. 81-112

Annette Hofmann and Mark Browne

Volume 45, issue 3, 2012

Testing the ‘standard’ model of stochastic choice under risk pp. 191-213

David John Butler, Andrea Isoni and Graham Loomes

How much ambiguity aversion? pp. 215-238

Ken Binmore, Lisa Stewart and Alex Voorhoeve

When is ambiguity–attitude constant? pp. 239-263

Jürgen Eichberger, Simon Grant and David Kelsey

School environment and risk preferences: Experimental evidence pp. 265-292

Catherine C Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, Cathleen Johnson, Angela Oliveira, Christian Rojas and Rick Wilson

Volume 45, issue 2, 2012

A genuine foundation for prospect theory pp. 97-113

Ulrich Schmidt and Horst Zank

Losers and losers: Some demographics of medical malpractice tort reforms pp. 115-133

Andrew Friedson and Thomas J. Kniesner

Comparing risk preferences over financial and environmental lotteries pp. 135-157

Mary Riddel

Experts in experiments pp. 159-190

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur Soest and Erik Wengström

Volume 45, issue 1, 2012

Does the WTA/WTP ratio diminish as the severity of a health complaint is reduced? Testing for smoothness of the underlying utility of wealth function pp. 1-24

Susan Chilton, Michael Jones-Lee, Rebecca McDonald and Hugh Metcalf

Failing to learn from experience about catastrophes: The case of hurricane preparedness pp. 25-50

Robert Meyer

Single-year and multi-year insurance policies in a competitive market pp. 51-78

Paul Kleindorfer, Howard Kunreuther and Chieh Ou-Yang

Do administrators have the same priorities for risk reductions as the general public? pp. 79-95

Fredrik Carlsson, Dinky Daruvala and Henrik Jaldell

Volume 44, issue 3, 2012

Avoiding the curves: Direct elicitation of time preferences pp. 181-217

Susan Laury, Melayne Morgan McInnes and J. Todd Swarthout

Updating beliefs with imperfect signals: Experimental evidence pp. 219-241

François Poinas, Julie Rosaz and Béatrice Roussillon

Decreasing absolute risk aversion, prudence and increased downside risk aversion pp. 243-260

Liqun Liu and Jack Meyer

Allais for all: Revisiting the paradox in a large representative sample pp. 261-293

Steffen Huck and Wieland Müller

Volume 44, issue 2, 2012

The disgust-promotes-disposal effect pp. 101-113

Seunghee Han, Jennifer Lerner and Richard J. Zeckhauser

Aggregating imprecise or conflicting beliefs: An experimental investigation using modern ambiguity theories pp. 115-147

Aurélien Baillon, Laure Cabantous and Peter P. Wakker

The Schwarzian derivative as a ranking of downside risk aversion pp. 149-160

Donald Keenan and Arthur Snow

Belief elicitation in the presence of naïve respondents: An experimental study pp. 161-180

Li Hao and Daniel Houser

Volume 44, issue 1, 2012

Ambiguity aversion and familiarity bias: Evidence from behavioral and gene association studies pp. 1-18

Soo Chew, Richard Ebstein and Songfa Zhong

Reference-dependent valuations of risk: Why willingness-to-accept exceeds willingness-to-pay pp. 19-44

W Kip Viscusi and Joel Huber

Social comparison and risky choices pp. 45-72

Jona Linde and Joep Sonnemans

Deterrence, expected cost, uncertainty and voting: Experimental evidence pp. 73-100

Gregory DeAngelo and Gary Charness

Volume 43, issue 3, 2011

Viewing the future through a warped lens: Why uncertainty generates hyperbolic discounting pp. 169-203

Thomas Epper, Helga Fehr-Duda and Adrian Bruhin

Risk attitudes in a social context pp. 205-225

Ingrid M.T. Rohde and Kirsten .M. Rohde

Controlling for initial endowment and experience in binary choice tasks pp. 227-243

Enrique Fatas, Francisca Jiménez and Antonio Morales

Does nurture matter: Theory and experimental investigation on the effect of working environment on risk and time preferences pp. 245-270

Quang Duc Nguyen

Volume 43, issue 2, 2011

Risky investment decisions: How are individuals influenced by their groups? pp. 81-106

W Kip Viscusi, Owen Phillips and Stephan Kroll

Asymmetric discounting of gains and losses: A query theory account pp. 107-126

Kirstin Appelt, David Hardisty and Elke Weber

Guaranteed renewability uniquely prevents adverse selection in individual health insurance pp. 127-139

Mark Pauly, Kai Menzel, Howard Kunreuther and Richard Hirth

Does sorry work? The impact of apology laws on medical malpractice pp. 141-167

Benjamin Ho and Elaine M. Liu

Volume 43, issue 1, 2011

A theorem for Bayesian group decisions pp. 1-17

Ralph Keeney and Robert Nau

Dopamine and risk choices in different domains: Findings among serious tournament bridge players pp. 19-38

Anna Dreber, David Rand, Nils Wernerfelt, Justin Garcia, Miguel Vilar, J. Lum and Richard J. Zeckhauser

Preference towards control in risk taking: Control, no control, or randomize? pp. 39-63

King Li

Two-sided intergenerational moral hazard, long-term care insurance, and nursing home use pp. 65-80

Christophe Courbage and Peter Zweifel

Volume 42, issue 3, 2011

Prospect theory for continuous distributions: A preference foundation pp. 195-210

Amit Kothiyal, Vitalie Spinu and Peter P. Wakker

Is imprecise knowledge better than conflicting expertise? Evidence from insurers’ decisions in the United States pp. 211-232

Laure Cabantous, Denis Hilton, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Dopamine receptor genes predict risk preferences, time preferences, and related economic choices pp. 233-261

Jeffrey Carpenter, Justin Garcia and J. Lum

Self-protection against repeated low probability risks pp. 263-285

Aric Shafran

Volume 42, issue 2, 2011

Dynamic decision making: what do people do? pp. 85-123

John Denis Hey and Luca Panaccione

Discount rates, social judgments, individuals’ risk preferences, and uncertainty pp. 125-143

Louis Kaplow and David Weisbach

Assessing small non-zero perceptions of chance: The case of H1N1 (swine) flu risks pp. 145-159

Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Andrew Parker and Jürgen Maurer

Information, risk perceptions, and smoking choices of youth pp. 161-193

Frank Allen Sloan and Alyssa Platt

Volume 42, issue 1, 2011

Digit ratios (2D:4D) as predictors of risky decision making for both sexes pp. 1-26

Ellen Garbarino, Robert L Slonim and Justin Sydnor

Ambiguity aversion and the propensities for self-insurance and self-protection pp. 27-43

Arthur Snow

A Diamond-Stiglitz approach to the demand for self-protection pp. 45-60

Donald Meyer and Jack Meyer

Monetary incentives in the loss domain and behavior toward risk: An experimental comparison of three reward schemes including real losses pp. 61-83

Nathalie ETCHART-VINCENT and Olivier l’Haridon