Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Discounting dilemmas: Editors’ introduction pp. 95-106: Richard Zeckhauser and W Viscusi
Asymmetric or symmetric time preference and discounting in many facets of economic theory: A miscellany pp. 107-114: Paul Samuelson
Policymaking for posterity pp. 115-140: Lawrence Summers and Richard Zeckhauser
Discounting climate change pp. 141-169: Partha Dasgupta
Discounting with fat-tailed economic growth pp. 171-186: Christian Gollier
Perfect and total altruism across the generations pp. 187-197: Stephen Fels and Richard Zeckhauser
Estimating discount rates for environmental quality from utility-based choice experiments pp. 199-220: W Viscusi, Joel Huber and Jason Bell
Conflicting motives in evaluations of sequences pp. 221-235: Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein
Individual laboratory-measured discount rates predict field behavior pp. 237-269: Christopher Chabris, David Laibson, Carrie Morris, Jonathon Schuldt and Dmitry Taubinsky

Resource allocation when projects have ranges of increasing returns pp. 1-33: Catherine Bobtcheff, Christian Gollier and Richard Zeckhauser
One-reason decision-making: Modeling violations of expected utility theory pp. 35-56: Konstantinos Katsikopoulos and Gerd Gigerenzer
Myopic risk-seeking: The impact of narrow decision bracketing on lottery play pp. 57-75: Emily Haisley, Romel Mostafa and George Loewenstein
An experimental investigation of violations of transitivity in choice under uncertainty pp. 77-91: Michael Birnbaum and Ulrich Schmidt
Resource allocations when projects have ranges of increasing returns pp. 93-93: Catherine Bobtcheff, Christian Gollier and Richard Zeckhauser

Third-generation prospect theory pp. 203-223: Ulrich Schmidt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden
Causes of ambiguity aversion: Known versus unknown preferences pp. 225-243: Stefan Trautmann, Ferdinand Vieider and Peter Wakker
A tractable method to measure utility and loss aversion under prospect theory pp. 245-266: Mohammed Abdellaoui, Han Bleichrodt and Olivier L’Haridon
On the intensity of downside risk aversion pp. 267-276: David Crainich and Louis Eeckhoudt

Self-protection and insurance with interdependencies pp. 103-123: Alexander Muermann and Howard Kunreuther
Valuing lives equally: Defensible premise or unwarranted compromise? pp. 125-138: Rachel Baker, Susan Chilton, Michael Jones-Lee and Hugh Metcalf
Risk preferences and changes in background risk pp. 139-152: Donald Keenan, Donald Rudow and Arthur Snow
What impacts the impact of rare events pp. 153-177: Ido Erev, Ira Glozman and Ralph Hertwig
Cancer premiums and latency effects: A risk tradeoff approach for valuing reductions in fatal cancer risks pp. 179-199: George Houtven, Melonie Sullivan and Chris Dockins
Generalized expected utility, heteroscedastic error, and path dependence in risky choice pp. 201-201: David Buschena and David Zilberman

Correcting expected utility for comparisons between alternative outcomes: A unified parameterization of regret and disappointment pp. 1-17: Carlos Laciana and Elke Weber
The effect of the background risk in a simple chance improving decision model pp. 19-41: Jinkwon Lee
Measuring revisions to subjective expectations pp. 43-82: Adeline Delavande
Prospect theory for continuous distributions pp. 83-102: Marc Rieger and Mei Wang

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 Caplan and Owen Phillips
The relationship between individual expectations and behaviors: Mortality expectations and smoking decisions pp. 179-201: Ahmed Khwaja, Frank 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 Cameron and Geoffrey Gerdes

Eliciting decision weights by adapting de Finetti’s betting-odds method to prospect theory pp. 179-199: Enrico Diecidue, Peter 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 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