Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2026

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Willingness to accept equals willingness to pay for labor market estimates of the value of a statistical life pp. 187-205: Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi and James Ziliak
Estimating subjective probabilities pp. 207-229: Steffen Andersen, John Fountain, Glenn Harrison and E. Rutström
Joint measurement of risk aversion, prudence, and temperance pp. 231-252: Sebastian Ebert and Daniel Wiesen
Buying and selling price for risky lotteries and expected utility theory with gambling wealth pp. 253-283: Michal Lewandowski

Behavioral insurance: Theory and experiments pp. 85-96: Andreas Richter, Joerg Schiller and Harris Schlesinger
Insurance demand and social comparison: An experimental analysis pp. 97-109: Andreas Friedl, Katharina Lima de Miranda and Ulrich Schmidt
Take-up for genetic tests and ambiguity pp. 111-133: Michael Hoy, Richard Peter and Andreas Richter
Too risk averse to purchase insurance? pp. 135-166: Antoine Bommier and François Grand
An experimental investigation of risk sharing and adverse selection pp. 167-186: Franziska Tausch, Jan Potters and Arno Riedl

An experimental test of prospect theory for predicting choice under ambiguity pp. 1-17: Amit Kothiyal, Vitalie Spinu and Peter Wakker
When Allais meets Ulysses: Dynamic axioms and the common ratio effect pp. 19-49: Antoine Nebout and Dimitri Dubois
On risk aversion, classical demand theory, and KM preferences pp. 51-66: Leonard Mirman and Marc Santugini
Prospect theory and the “forgotten” fourfold pattern of risk preferences pp. 67-83: Marc Scholten and Daniel Read

Sign-dependence in intertemporal choice pp. 225-253: Mohammed Abdellaoui, Han Bleichrodt and Olivier l’Haridon
Discriminating among probability weighting functions using adaptive design optimization pp. 255-289: Daniel Cavagnaro, Mark Pitt, Richard Gonzalez and Jay Myung
A further exploration of the uncertainty effect pp. 291-310: Yitong Wang, Tianjun Feng and L. Keller
Admissible utility functions for health, longevity, and wealth: integrating monetary and life-year measures pp. 311-325: James Hammitt

Risk and choice: A research saga pp. 129-145: Christian Gollier, James Hammitt and Nicolas Treich
Arrow’s theorem of the deductible: Moral hazard and stop-loss in health insurance pp. 147-163: Jacques Dreze and Erik Schokkaert
Risk aversion and religion pp. 165-183: Charles Noussair, Stefan Trautmann, Gijs Kuilen and Nathanaël Vellekoop
Normalized measures of concavity and Ross’s strongly more risk averse order pp. 185-198: Liqun Liu and Jack Meyer
Economic consequences of Nth-degree risk increases and Nth-degree risk attitudes pp. 199-224: Elyès Jouini, Clotilde Napp and Diego Nocetti

Eliminating the U.S. drug lag: Implications for drug safety pp. 1-30: Mary Olson
The “bomb” risk elicitation task pp. 31-65: Paolo Crosetto and Antonio Filippin
Does insurance fraud in automobile theft insurance fluctuate with the business cycle? pp. 67-92: Georges Dionne and Kili Wang
Are people overoptimistic about the effects of heavy drinking? pp. 93-127: Frank Sloan, Lindsey Eldred, Tong Guo and Yanzhi Xu

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

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

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

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

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

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