Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

1988 - 2025

Current editor(s): W. Kip Viscusi

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Are Preference Reversals Errors? An Experimental Investigation pp. 207-218: Ulrich Schmidt and John Hey
How Much Internalization of Nuclear Risk Through Liability Insurance? pp. 219-240: Yves Schneider and Peter Zweifel
The Utility of Gambling Reconsidered pp. 241-259: Enrico Diecidue, Ulrich Schmidt and Peter Wakker
Comparative Mixed Risk Aversion: Definition and Application to Self-Protection and Willingness to Pay pp. 261-276: Kaïs Dachraoui, Georges Dionne, Louis Eeckhoudt and Philippe Godfroid
Valuing International Safety Externalities: Does the "Golden Rule" Apply? pp. 277-287: Michael Jones-Lee

Data Mining Mining Data: MSHA Enforcement Efforts, Underground Coal Mine Safety, and New Health Policy Implications pp. 83-111: Thomas Kniesner and John D. Leeth
How Do People Take into Account Weight, Strength and Quality of Segregated vs. Aggregated Data? Experimental Evidence pp. 113-142: Carlo Kraemer and Martin Weber
Strategic Choice of Variability in Multiround Contests and Contests with Handicaps pp. 143-158: Ilia Tsetlin, Anil Gaba and Robert L. Winkler
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 pp. 159-180: Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn
Incorporating Framing into Prospect Theory Modeling: A Mixture-Model Approach pp. 181-197: Mei Wang and Paul S. Fischbeck

Introduction: Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics pp. 5-6: Christian Gollier, Hans-Peter Weikard and Justus Wesseler
Social Willingness to Pay, Mortality Risks and Contingent Valuation pp. 7-19: Olivier Armantier and Nicolas Treich
Robust Control in Water Management pp. 21-34: Catarina Roseta-Palma and Anastasios Xepapadeas
A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush? When Do We Prefer Something Certainly Dirty to Something Perhaps Clean? pp. 35-51: Andreas Lange and Ulf Moslener
Stable International Environmental Agreements with a Stock Pollutant, Uncertainty and Learning pp. 53-73: Alistair Ulph

The Ecology of Risk Taking pp. 195-215: Francois Degeorge, Boaz Moselle and Richard Zeckhauser
Is Probability Weighting Sensitive to the Magnitude of Consequences? An Experimental Investigation on Losses pp. 217-235: Nathalie Etchart-Vincent
The Swing of the Regulatory Pendulum in Europe: From Precautionary Principle to (Regulatory) Impact Analysis pp. 237-260: Ragnar E. L–fstedt
Do They Know What They are Doing? Risk Perceptions and Smoking Behaviour Among Swedish Teenagers pp. 261-286: Petter Lundborg and Bj–rn Lindgren

The Fatality Risks of Sport-Utility Vehicles, Vans, and Pickups Relative to Cars pp. 103-133: Ted Gayer
A Simple Tool for Qualitatively Testing, Quantitatively Measuring, and Normatively Justifying Savage's Subjective Expected Utility pp. 135-145: Veronika K–bberling and Peter Wakker
Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air? pp. 147-163: Fredrik Carlsson, Olof Johansson-Stenman and Peter Martinsson
Sequential Parimutuel Betting in the Laboratory pp. 165-186: Anthony Ziegelmeyer, Marie-Hélène Broihanne and Frederic Koessler

Neglecting Disaster: Why Don't People Insure Against Large Losses? pp. 5-21: Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly
A Simple Risk-Sharing Experiment pp. 23-38: John Bone, John Hey and John Suckling
Effects of Risk and Time Preference and Expected Longevity on Demand for Medical Tests pp. 39-53: Gabriel Picone, Frank Sloan and Donald Taylor
A Note on Luce-Fishburn Axiomatization of Rank-Dependent Utility pp. 55-71: Liping Liu
Effects of Disease Type and Latency on the Value of Mortality Risk pp. 73-95: James Hammitt and Jin-Tan Liu

On the Measurement of Job Risk in Hedonic Wage Models pp. 205-20: Dan Black and Thomas Kniesner
Saving Lives: A Review of the Record pp. 221-37: Morrall, John F,
Racial Differences in Labor Market Values of a Statistical Life pp. 239-56: W Viscusi
Compensating Wage Differentials for Fatal and Nonfatal Injury Risk by Gender and Race pp. 257-77: John D Leeth and John Ruser
The Clean Air Act of 1970 and Adult Mortality pp. 279-300: Kenneth Chay, Carlos Dobkin and Michael Greenstone

Local Utility Functions and Local Probability Transformations pp. 111-20: John Quiggin and Robert Chambers
Optimal Insurance with Divergent Beliefs about Insurer Total Default Risk pp. 121-38: John Cummins and Olivier Mahul
Preference Reversals and Induced Risk Preferences: Evidence for Noisy Maximization pp. 139-70: Joyce E Berg, John Dickhaut and Thomas A Rietz
Did We Overestimate the Value of Health? pp. 171-93: Rafael Lalive

The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates throughout the World pp. 5-76: W Viscusi and Joseph Aldy
Decision-Making under Scientific Uncertainty: The Economics of the Precautionary Principle pp. 77-103: Christian Gollier and Nicolas Treich

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