Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Volume 46, issue 3, 2013

An expected utility maximizer walks into a bar pp. 215-246

Daniel Burghart, Paul Glimcher and Stephanie Lazzaro

The St. Petersburg Paradox at 300 pp. 247-264

Christian Seidl

Solomonic separation: Risk decisions as productivity indicators pp. 265-297

Nolan Miller, Alexander Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser

Bias and brains: Risk aversion and cognitive ability across real and hypothetical settings pp. 299-320

Matthew Taylor

Volume 46, issue 2, 2013

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

Anna Conte and John 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 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 Eckel, Philip Grossman, Cathleen Johnson, Angela de 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 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 van 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 McInnes and J. 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 Zeckhauser

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

Aurelien Baillon, Laure Cabantous and Peter 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 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 Rohde and Kirsten 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 Nguyen

Volume 43, issue 2, 2011

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

W 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 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 Zeckhauser

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

King 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 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 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 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 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