Are choices for others riskier than choices people make for themselves? This question has
been asked by economists, psychologists, and other researchers in the social sciences …

Individuals take decisions on behalf of others in many different contexts. In this paper, we
focus on lotteries with negative expected value and study if (and how) risky choices made on …

The feasibility and efficiency of public policies aimed at decarbonizing tourism also depend
on tourists' attitudes and acceptance. This paper investigates tourists' preferences and …

This paper performs several tests of decision analysis applied to the health domain. First, we
conduct a test of the normative expected utility theory. Second, we investigate the possibility …

Mainstream health economic theory implies that an expected gain in health-related quality of
life (HRQoL) produces the same value for consumers, regardless of baseline health. Several …

Contemporary theories of decision-making are compared with respect to their predictions
about the judgments that are hypothesized to underlie risky choice framing effects …

Societal risks associated with natural hazards are largely determined by human decision-
making and risk mitigation behaviors. While much is known about individual risk perception …

In light of the importance of sustainable development, this study aims to deepen and extend
our understanding of employees' pro-environmental behaviour in the workplace in a …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health
and the willingness to pay (WTP) for medical technologies. However, the absence of …

This paper identifies convex distributional preferences as a possible cause for the empirical
observation that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly in risky …