Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2009

Edited by W. Kip Viscusi

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Fair (and not so fair) division pp. 203-236: John Pratt
Predicted risk perception and risk-taking behavior: The case of impaired driving pp. 237-264: Georges Dionne, Claude Fluet and Denise Desjardins
Gender, risk and stereotypes pp. 265-283: Dinky Daruvala
Behavior towards health risks: An empirical study using the “Mad Cow” crisis as an experiment pp. 285-305: Jerome Adda

Whom should we believe? Aggregation of heterogeneous beliefs pp. 107-127: Christian Gollier
Individual and group decision making under risk: An experimental study of Bayesian updating and violations of first-order stochastic dominance pp. 129-148: Gary Charness, Edi Karni and Dan Levin
A Bayesian examination of information and uncertainty in contingent valuation pp. 149-178: David Aadland, Arthur Josef Caplan and Owen Phillips
The relationship between individual expectations and behaviors: Mortality expectations and smoking decisions pp. 179-201: Ahmed Khwaja, Frank Allen Sloan and Sukyung Chung

Conspicuous conservatism in risk choice pp. 1-16: Boaz Moselle, Francois Degeorge and Richard Zeckhauser
Environmental disasters as risk regulation catalysts? The role of Bhopal, Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, Love Canal, and Three Mile Island in shaping U.S. environmental law pp. 17-43: Matthew Kahn
Statistical vs. identified lives in benefit-cost analysis pp. 45-66: James Hammitt and Nicolas TREICH
Risk aversion and expected-utility theory: A calibration exercise pp. 67-76: Laura Schechter
Valuing publicly sponsored research projects: Risks, scenario adjustments, and inattention pp. 77-105: Daniel Burghart, Trudy Ann Cameron and Geoffrey Richard Gerdes

Eliciting decision weights by adapting de Finetti’s betting-odds method to prospect theory pp. 179-199: Enrico Diecidue, Peter P. Wakker and Marcel Zeelenberg
The sensitivity of subjective probability to time and elicitation method pp. 201-216: Graham Loomes and Judith Mehta
Smoking, information sources, and risk perceptions—New results on Swedish data pp. 217-240: Petter Lundborg
Preferences and decision errors in the winner’s curse pp. 241-257: Ellen Garbarino and Robert Slonim
Stochastic expected utility theory pp. 259-286: Pavlo Blavatskyy

Intertemporal choice under timing risk: An experimental approach pp. 99-121: Selçuk Onay and Ayse Öncüler
Scope insensitivity in health risk reduction studies: A comparison of choice experiments and the contingent valuation method for valuing safer food pp. 123-144: Isabell Goldberg and Jutta Roosen
Dual process theories: A key for understanding the diversification bias? pp. 145-154: Christoph Kogler and Anton Kühberger
Paying for permanence: Public preferences for contaminated site cleanup pp. 155-178: Anna Alberini, Stefania Tonin, Margherita Turvani and Aline Chiabai

Counting casualties: A framework for respectful, useful records pp. 1-19: Baruch Fischhoff, Scott Atran and Noam Fischhoff
The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India pp. 21-47: Soma Bhattacharya, Anna Alberini and Maureen Cropper
Can ranking techniques elicit robust values? pp. 49-66: Ian J. Bateman, Brett Day, Graham Loomes and Robert Sugden
Perception of own death risk pp. 67-84: Henrik Andersson and Petter Lundborg
Wage compensation for job-related illness: Evidence from a matched employer and employee survey in the UK pp. 85-98: Xiangdong Wei

Learning in the Allais paradox pp. 155-164: Gijs van de Kuilen and Peter P. Wakker
Dread risks pp. 165-182: Susan Chilton, Michael Jones-Lee, Francis Kiraly, Hugh Metcalf and Wei Pang
Choices at various levels of uncertainty: An experimental test of the restated diversification theorem pp. 183-196: Ali Ahmed and Göran Skogh
Disappointment without prior expectation: a unifying perspective on decision under risk pp. 197-215: Philippe Delquié and Alessandra Cillo
Reflections on gains and losses: A 2 × 2 × 7 experiment pp. 217-235: Antoni Bosch-Domènech and Joaquim Silvestre

Natural disaster risks: An introduction pp. 5-11: W Kip Viscusi
National survey evidence on disasters and relief: Risk beliefs, self-interest, and compassion pp. 13-36: W Kip Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser
Adjusting to natural disasters pp. 37-54: Vernon Smith, Jared C. Carbone, Jaren Pope, Daniel Hallstrom and Michael Darden
The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on insurance markets pp. 55-72: Patricia Born and W Kip Viscusi
Private investment and government protection pp. 73-100: Carolyn Kousky, Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Richard Zeckhauser
Rules rather than discretion: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina pp. 101-116: Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly
Planning for natural disasters in a stochastic world pp. 117-130: Lester Lave and Jay Apt
Analyzing disaster risks and plans: An avian flu example pp. 131-149: Baruch Fischhoff, Wändi Bruin, Ümit Güvenç, Denise Caruso and Larry Brilliant

Ambiguity seeking as a result of the status quo bias pp. 175-194: Mercè Roca, Robin Hogarth and A. Maule
Lottery qualities pp. 195-216: Yves Alarie and Georges Dionne
Discount rates and risky sexual behaviors among teenagers and young adults pp. 217-230: Harrell Chesson, Jami Leichliter, Gregory Zimet, Susan Rosenthal, David Bernstein and Kenneth Fife
Willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions: Does latency matter? pp. 231-245: Anna Alberini, Maureen L. Cropper, Alan Krupnick and Nathalie Simon

An exploration of the offset hypothesis using disaggregate data: The case of airbags and antilock brakes pp. 83-99: Clifford M. Winston, Vikram Maheshri and Fred Mannering
Cumulative prospect theory's functional menagerie pp. 101-130: Henry Stott
A theoretically-consistent empirical model of non-expected utility: An application to nuclear-waste transport pp. 131-150: Mary Riddel and W. Shaw
The value of improved road safety pp. 151-170: Lars Hultkrantz, Gunnar Lindberg and Camilla Andersson

Behavioral Probabilities pp. 5-15: W Kip Viscusi and William N. Evans
The Effects of Spousal Health on the Decision to Smoke: Evidence on Consumption Externalities, Altruism and Learning Within the Household pp. 17-35: Ahmed Khwaja, Frank Allen Sloan and Sukyung Chung
Estimates of Own Lethal Risks and Anchoring Effects pp. 37-56: Olivier Armantier
Assessing the Accuracy of Self-Reported Data: an Evaluation of the Toxics Release Inventory pp. 57-76: Scott Marchi and James Hamilton