Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Sacrificing Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks pp. 99-120: W Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser
Terrorism and Probability Neglect pp. 121-36: Cass Sunstein
Judged Terror Risk and Proximity to the World Trade Center pp. 137-51: Baruch Fischhoff, Roxana M. Gonzalez, Deborah A. Small and Jennifer S. Lerner
Catastrophic Events, Parameter Uncertainty and the Breakdown of Implicit Long-Term Contracting: The Case of Terrorism Insurance pp. 153-78: John Cummins and Christopher M Lewis
Insuring September 11th: Market Recovery and Transparency pp. 179-99: Neil A Doherty, Joan Lamm-Tennant and Laura T Starks
The Ecology of Terror Defense pp. 201-29: Nathaniel Keohane and Richard Zeckhauser
Interdependent Security pp. 231-49: Howard Kunreuther and Geoffrey Heal

Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability pp. 5-16: Deborah A Small and George Loewenstein
On the Representation of Beliefs by Probabilities pp. 17-38: Edi Karni
Measuring Intergenerational Time Preference: Are Future Lives Valued Less? pp. 39-53: Shane Frederick
Reassessing the Testing of Generic Utility Models for Mixed Gambles pp. 55-76: Richard A Chechile and Susan F Butler
Perceived Hazard and Product Choice: An Application to Recreational Site Choice pp. 77-92: Paul Jakus and W. Shaw

Public Perceptions of Risk and Preference-Based Values of Safety pp. 211-32: Susan Chilton, Judith Covey, Lorraine Hopkins, Michael Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes, Nick Pidgeon and Anne Spencer
An Experimental Test of Loss Aversion pp. 233-49: Ulrich Schmidt and Stefan Traub
On the Definition and Age-Dependency of the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 251-63: Per-Olov Johansson
Arrow-Pratt Risk Aversion, Risk Premium and Decision Weights pp. 265-90: Haim Levy and Moshe Levy

Pitfalls in Drawing Policy Conclusions from Retrospective Survey Data: The Case of Advertising and Underage Smoking pp. 111-31: John Geweke and Donald L Martin
Risk and Self-Protection: A State-Contingent View pp. 133-45: John Quiggin
Propagation of Individual Bias through Group Judgment: Error in the Treatment of Asymmetrically Informative Signals pp. 147-63: William P Bottom, Krishna Ladha and Gary J Miller
Risk Perceptions and Alcohol Consumption among Young People pp. 165-83: Petter Lundborg and Bjorn Lindgren
Stretching the Truth: Elastic Justification and Motivated Communication of Uncertain Information pp. 185-201: Maurice E Schweitzer and Christopher K Hsee
Errata pp. 207-207: Serge Blondel

Explicit versus Implicit Income Insurance pp. 5-20: Thomas Kniesner and James Ziliak
Tacit Coordination in Choice between Certain Outcomes in Endogenously Determined Lotteries pp. 21-45: Amnon Rapoport, Darryl A Seale and Lisa Ordonez
Compensation for What? An Analysis of Insurance Strategies for Repairable Assets pp. 47-64: Pierre-Francois Koehl and Bertrand Villeneuve
Simultaneous Over- and Underconfidence: Evidence from Experimental Asset Markets pp. 65-85: Erich Kirchler and Boris Maciejovsky
The Endowment Effect, Status Quo Bias and Loss Aversion: Rational Alternative Explanation pp. 87-101: Dominique Y Dupont and Gabriel Lee

Horizon Length and Portfolio Risk pp. 195-212: Christian Gollier and Richard Zeckhauser
Replacement Cost Endorsement and Opportunistic Fraud in Automobile Insurance pp. 213-30: Georges Dionne and Robert Gagné
Do Life-Saving Regulations Save Lives? pp. 231-49: Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Magnus Johannesson
Testing Theories of Choice Under Risk: Estimation of Individual Functionals pp. 251-265: Serge Blondel
Testing Theories of Choice under Risk: Estimation of Individual Functionals pp. 251-65: Serge Blondel
Greater Downside Risk Aversion pp. 267-77: Donald Keenan and Arthur Snow

A Microeconometric Test of Alternative Stochastic Theories of Risky Choice pp. 103-30: Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt and Robert Sugden
Comparative Risk Sensitivity with Reference-Dependent Preferences pp. 131-42: William Neilson
Examining Predictive Accuracy Among Discounting Models pp. 143-60: L Robin Keller and Elisabetta Strazzera
Age, Health and the Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: A Contingent Valuation Survey of Ontario Residents pp. 161-86: Alan Krupnick, Anna Alberini, Maureen Cropper, Nathalie Simon, Bernie O'Brien, Ron Goeree and Martin Heintzelman

Living Healthy and Living Long: Valuing the Nonpecuniary Loss from Disability and Death pp. 5-29: Krista M Perreira and Frank Sloan
A Further Examination of Cumulative Prospect Theory Parameterizations pp. 31-46: William Neilson and C. Stowe
Effects of Outcome and Probabilistic Ambiguity on Managerial Choices pp. 47-74: Joanna L Y Ho, L Robin Keller and Pamela Keltyka
Consumer Preferences for Food Irradiation: How Favorable and Unfavorable Descriptions Affect Preferences for Irradiated Pork in Experimental Auctions pp. 75-95: John Fox, Dermot Hayes and Jason Shogren

Payoff Kinks in Preferences over Lotteries pp. 207-60: Mark Machina
Background Risks and the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 261-79: Louis Eeckhoudt and James Hammitt
On the Intuition of Rank-Dependent Utility pp. 281-98: Enrico Diecidue and Peter Wakker
Improved Risk Information, the Demand for Cigarettes, and Anti-tobacco Policy pp. 299-303: Peter Zweifel

Making Low Probabilities Useful pp. 103-20: Howard Kunreuther, Nathan Novemsky and Daniel Kahneman
The Value of a Statistical Life in Transport: Findings from a New Contingent Valuation Study in Sweden pp. 121-34: Ulf Persson, Anna Norinder, Krister Hjalte and Katarina Gralén
Ranked-Weighted Utilities and Qualitative Convolution pp. 135-63: A A J Marley and R Duncan Luce
Valuing Mortality-Risk Reduction: Using Visual Aids to Improve the Validity of Contingent Valuation pp. 165-84: Phaedra S Corso, James Hammitt and John D Graham
Probability Weighting in Choice under Risk: An Empirical Test pp. 185-98: Han Bleichrodt

Is Time-Discounting Hyperbolic or Subadditive? pp. 5-32: Daniel Read
Measurement Error and the Effects of Unions on the Compensating Differentials for Fatal Workplace Risks pp. 33-56: Robert Sandy, R. F. Elliot, William Siebert and X. D. Wei
A Mu-Sigma Risk Aversion Paradox and Wealth Dependent Utility pp. 57-73: Andreas Loffler
Recurrence in Workers' Compensation Claims: Estimates from a Multiple Spell Hazard Model pp. 75-94: Michele Campolieti